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Michael Wall. Photo by Marissa Mooney. I caught up the other week on the phone with musician Michael Wall. Michael is the Modern Dance Program Head in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. His extensive music site is called Sound for Movement.  I myself am a huge fan of Michael’s music. I…

Clarissa Dyas. Photo by RJ Muna. On the Creation of Meet Us Quickly with Your Mercy By Jo Kreiter and Rahsaan Thomas In 2018, Jo put out a call for a Black change-maker interested in engaging with a Jewish artist about racial justice and prison abolition. Rahsaan responded. In the more than 2 years we’ve…

Today's musing/offering on the blog is inspired by Audrey Johnson's amazing improvisation class online this morning through Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. Thank you Audrey! (Read her piece on the blog about improvisation here.) I loved Audrey's class and all of the spirals we explored – big and small, body parts, traveling in space, and emanating outward…

Beginning to build a kit for outdoor dance classes through Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, CA From Blog Director Jill Randall: From 2014-2016, I was in graduate school in the Saint Mary’s College low res MFA Program. I loved my time in the program, and Linda Baumgardner’s Stage Management class was one of my favorite…

Today's post shares perspectives from 6 members of the Dancing Around Race cohort in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please find each artist's bio at the end of the piece. Sammay Dizon. Photo by Scott Tsuchitani. If we know better, we do better By Bhumi B. Patel The Dancing Around Race conversation during Joe Goode…

Hometown: Paterson, New Jersey Current city: Oakland, California Age: 29 College and degree: William Paterson University of New Jersey; B.A in Women’s and Gender Studies with a minor in Public Relations How you pay the bills: Arts administrator by day, writer and choreographer by night All of the dance hats you wear: Community Engagement Manager for AXIS Dance Company,…

During the past 2 weeks, dancers throughout the country have been reading How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World by Ann Cooper Albright. Please follow the Comments thread here, and please consider getting the book and diving in next week as well! For today, we read Chapter 2 (Disorientation) and Chapter 3 (Suspension):…

Jae Neal. Photo: Aeric Meredith-Goujon. Read Jae's Shelter-in-Place Dance Dictionary here.   From Blog Director Jill Randall: It's been another long month in shelter-in-place. I hope that you and your family are safe and healthy. My heart is so heavy processing all of the recent racial injustices in our country. Thank you to Dance/NYC for…

Photo: Liv Schaffer Hometown: Algonquin, IL (Northwest suburbs of Chicago) Current city: Oakland, CA Age: 29 College and degree: Bachelors of Fine Arts from Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California How you pay the bills: Adjunct and administrative positions with University of San Francisco and Dominican University, studio classes, and…

Photo by Makayla Ferrick   Self space: The generalized physical space that I take for granted, which is near enough to me to be mistaken for me or mine.  Self space is not a term of occupation, but imagination and spirit.  Where do I end?  How much do I encompass/encompasses me?  Or Where a person…