Since welcoming its first freshman BFA class in 2015, the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance has made a name for itself. The Los Angeles dance program is known for creating versatile artists in a collaborative, innovative training environment, and its alumni are already making bold professional leaps. Dance Magazine caught up […]

Since welcoming its first freshman BFA class in 2015, the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance has made a name for itself. The Los Angeles dance program is known for creating versatile artists in a collaborative, innovative training environment, and its alumni are already making bold professional leaps. Dance Magazine caught up […]

Blissful Tribute On March 13, dance luminaries celebrated Sally Brayley Bliss, retiring after 11 years as executive director of Dance St. Louis, in A Bliss Full Affair, at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis.   Speakers included Carla Maxwell, Victoria Morgan, Tom Mossbrucker, David Parsons, and Edward Villella, who said, “I got to […]

To the Finnish Line: Jorma Elo in America With so many commissions on his schedule in Europe and North America, where does Jorma Elo live these days?   “That’s what my girlfriend always asks,” the Finnish choreographer says, laughing. “I live in Holland, but I don’t spend much time there!”   A provocative amalgam of […]

Skinner Releasing Technique is a somatic practice that enhances dance technique and catalyzes healing. Through the use of imagery, voice, language, and music, the SRT teacher guides the participant in a way that leads to a self-propelling process. Developed by dancer/choreographer Joan Skinner in the 1960s, SRT aims to free students of excess tension and […]

Stephan Koplowitz’s collaboration with Vietnamese improviser Dao Anh Khanh, A Walk Between Two Worlds, is the culmination of three years of work they’ve done in Vietnam. The two worlds of the title, said Koplowitz, could be art and life, East and West, or real and virtual. The piece includes a video Koplowitz shot in Vietnam […]

A Woman for All Seasons: Dunham past, present, and future.     Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham Edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 718 pages, illustrated, hardcover $65; paper $24.95. “Kaiso”—the calypso culture’s word for “bravo”—is the cool title for this updated, revised, […]

Cal Performances celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Connors, who started the job in 1945, recalls the early, pre-Misha era. “It was very hard to get companies to come out. There were so few performing opportunities on the West Coast. And they didn’t fly in those days,” she says.     In earlier decades, Berkeley […]