San Francisco, CA - 02/03/12
Float. Pull your bones. Smear your flesh on the ground. Connect to your pleasure. Quake. Stretch your face. Find the snake in your spine. Put a good taste in your mouth. Melt. Connect to your...More
San Francisco, CA - 02/03/12
One of my teachers put it best, “It’s a language. Technique is something you do. A language is something you learn and becomes a part of your life.”
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Sunday morning on a college campus: half the students were still asleep, the others were finishing Monday’s homework, and my friend and I were enjoying an unexpectedly good brunch at the dining...More
San Francisco, CA - 12/16/11
"What exactly do you mean by ‘participatory arts practices’?” a dancer recently asked me.
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I work as a interdisciplinary movement based artist. I shorten it to choreographer most of the time, depending upon where I am, who I'm talking to. Right now I am in California, in Palo Alto as a...More
In Dance, November 2011, CA - 11/11/11
From old school movements like the Richmond Robot and Oakland Boogaloo, to Hyphy and Turfing to San Francisco’s ‘new style’ hip-hop choreography, the Bay Area is a hub for hip-hop dance. The...More
San Francisco, CA - 10/27/11
Thirty-five years of feminist dance advocating for radical social change, and it’s time for a huge celebration! With a free dance concert in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Novellus Theater,...More
San Francisco, CA - 09/30/11
When Theatre Flamenco, Hawaiian dance company Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, and Beach Blanket Babylon descend on City Hall October 7 for a festive installment of the Rotunda Dance Series, they’ll be...More
San Francisco, CA - 09/16/11
Choreographers are not alone in the search for space and time to work on their craft. The unique challenge for dancers, however, becomes finding organizations that “get it”—the creative...More
San Francisco, CA - 09/02/11
On the heels of an ambitious four-choreographer collaboration with Kara Davis, Manuelito Biag, and Alex Ketley, Katie Faulkner is not only stretching herself as an artist, but is now literally...More