“The Embodiment Project,” directed by Nicole Klaymoon, brings together dancers, singers, actors and lecturers to focus on the very contemporary…
Joanna G. Harris
Joanna Gewertz Harris, Ph.D, is a dance teacher, historian, reviewer, and lecturer. She taught dance and theater at UCB, UCSC, Cal State Hayward and Sonoma, and is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and books, most recently to H'Doubler, and Legacy in Dance Education,
both from Cambria Press. Beyond Isadora, Bay Area Dancing 1915-1965 , her book documenting Bay Area history (Price $40. + 2.00 shipping) is available from her web site beyondsadora.com and her e mail, joannagharris@comcast.net.
Ritual Exuberance Krissy Keefer, the director of Dance Brigade has staged “The Great Liberation…” at least twice since 1999. This…
Past/Present Deborah Hay “belongs to a group of choreographers who were behind the Judson Church Movement in New York in…
Randy Pauve notes that “Strangers Become Flowers” “…is about finding places in the grip and slip of human contact…” In…
I asked the people next to me at Nohspace on Friday, November 4, which of the two offerings they…
Ernest Delight Under the direction of Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, the Black…
Amy Seiwert brought three amazing pieces to the ODC Theater for this engagement: “Traveling Alone” (2012); “Starting Over at the…
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Panama Pacific International Festival (which took place even then in the same Palace of…
Fort Mason (setting of the 2015 San Francisco International Arts Festival) is a beautiful site jutting out into the San…
San Francisco Ballet’s Program 4 achieved a triumphant success with its production of Jerome Robbins’ “Dances at a Gathering” (1969)….
“Carmen” was first produced in London in 1949 and then premiered in San Jose on May 3, 2002. It is…
In her time, Isadora Duncan choreographed opera, among them Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice.” There is lovely pastoral dance in that…
For its 10th anniversary season, the Black Choreographers Festival has extended into new and “other” dimensions. Under the leadership of…