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  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 5 Days until Social Movement by Molly Rose-Williams

    Please join us this week as we engage with Molly Rose-Williams and her the collaborators for Social Movement, which premieres on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. Purchase your tickets here. Today we hear from collaborator Chelsea Boyd Brown. Chelsea Boyd Brown is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and arts administrator. She…

  • What Is “Social Movement?”

    By Molly Rose-Williams Eleven weeks ago, I started making a show. I had two questions: What roles can dance, dance-making, performance, and art play in creating change? What might bodies moving together teach us about the actual labor of social movements? In The Art of Protest, cultural theorist T.V. Reed suggests that art can serve…

  • On Queerness, Selfhood, and Art-Making: In which my preview for Nora Sharp’s new show “Small Boobs” became a personal essay

    Nora Sharp; photo by Naomi Ishisaka On Queerness, Selfhood, and Art-Making: In which my preview for Nora Sharp’s new show “Small Boobs” became a personal essay By Molly Rose-Williams I was a junior in high school when I had my first serious crush on a girl. I’m talking sleepless nights and a painful number of…

  • The Artists’ Gratitude Project: Week 40 (Expression)

    The 2018 Artists’ Gratitude Project: A Weekly Practice The potential for positivity, hope, change, and appreciation. Do you feel the dichotomy? Many artists come from an upbringing of extensive support and opportunity – with training, classes, private lessons, workshops, mentors, supplies, and equipment. Many go onto colleges, conservatories, and masters programs. Yet, as artists in…

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  • Spotlight on Dance Writing from April 2018: thINKingDANCE

    Each month in 2018, we are highlighting one dance writing site. In January, we took a weekly read of Dance Tabs; February focused on loveDANCEmore. For March, we explored dance-enthusiast.com, and April looked at thINKingDANCE. Reading thINKingDANCE throughout April 2018: April 3rd = I read 3 reviews Citizen Displaced by Andrew Sargus Klein This is actually a review…

  • A Year of Wellness: Wisdom and Words from Michelle Boule

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: Today I am excited to repost a recent piece written by Michelle Boulé. Thank you to Michelle! Read more about Michelle through her artist profile on the blog as well as her websites: michelleboule.com mbodyradiance.com   As Michelle shared in January as we launched this monthly feature on wellness,  I…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 1 Day Until the Premiere of ka·nei·see collective’s Nevertheless

    Photo: picsprobono From Blog Director Jill Randall: Lately, I have been thinking about dance writing and dance publicity. How do we share/invite/entice/preview a work for our potential audience members? Along with San Francisco Bay Area artists Tanya Chianese and Heather Arnett, we are playing with this idea for the 7 days leading up to their show,…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 3 Days Until the Premiere of ka·nei·see collective’s Nevertheless

    Mallory Markham and Madeline Matuska. Photo by Rob Best. From Blog Director Jill Randall: Lately, I have been thinking about dance writing and dance publicity. How do we share/invite/entice/preview a work for our potential audience members? Along with San Francisco Bay Area artists Tanya Chianese and Heather Arnett, we are playing with this idea for the…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 5 Days Until the Premiere of ka·nei·see collective’s Nevertheless

      From Blog Director Jill Randall: Lately, I have been thinking about dance writing and dance publicity. How do we share/invite/entice/preview a work for our potential audience members? Along with San Francisco Bay Area artists Tanya Chianese and Heather Arnett, we are playing with this idea for the 7 days leading up to their show, Nevertheless,…