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I HOPE YOU’RE WELL, AND I HOPE YOU’RE SAFE. For most of 2020 these daily words were written in emails, texts and in posts on social. They do bear repeating: Dancers’ Group hopes you’re well, and we hope you’re safe. These direct and caring sentiments reflect the many unknowns taking place during this shared situation known as COVID. I’m OK. Are you OK? I think that trying to make sense of this time is in part a realization that human and natural systems are not separate. Hey, World. Are you OK?
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We find ourselves in an unreal reality. Being told to carry on with our life as if all is OK: like, the paradox of being ordered to shelter in place, yet the expectation is that we keep working, keep producing; and then there’s the reality of lost income and still having to pay our rent and loans and bills. How does this make sense — well it doesn’t and yet, it’s our reality. Even during a pandemic — a time like and not like the HIV/AIDS pandemic —we dance. Times of great loss stir up questions of what to do? What comes next? These questions, past and present, guide us forward and provide options and opportunity to share. I do believe that dance is a sharing and forever kinda thing. It’s primal, and it feeds us, and it continues to be the thing we come back to. So continue to question. And continue to demand change. As we’ve put together this Fall issue we’ve asked many questions, and one was, who’s in the community? This has led us to look at numerous dance organizations in the Bay Area — over 700 the last we surveyed. Within these pages we highlight a smattering — that’s a technical term— to illicit action from our readers. Meaning go to their website or social media page, and learn more about their work, activities, transitions, offerings. Be ready to be gob- smacked by what continues to take place here. Let’s dance with those that protest. Let’s dance with those that dream. Let’s dance to ensure a shift in power. Let’s stomp out systemic racism. It doesn’t matter how we dance, it matters that we do something, we move, we are in action. Let’s be kind and generous and ready to move toward truths we know to be true — in dance, in the World. I hope you’re well, and I hope you’re safe.
DANCERS’ GROUP Artist Administrator Wayne Hazzard Associate Director Katie Taylor Program Assistant Andréa Spearman Administrative Assistant Shellie Jew Bookkeeper Michele Simon Design Sharon Anderson
30/ In Community
4 / IN PRACTICE: Stepping Back to Move Forward
Dancers’ Group gratefully acknowledges the support of Bernard Osher Foundation, California Arts Council, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts, JB Berland Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Koret Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and generous individuals.
Highlights and resources, activities and celebrations for our community— find more on dancersgroup.org
A Conversation about shared leader- ship and power with Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr and Karla Quintero by Sima Belmar 10 / House/Full of BlackWomen: New Chitlin Circuitry: Reparations Vaudeville is the 14th Episode directed by Amara Tabor-Smith and Ellen Sebastian Chang
36/ Out of Touch
When, and how, do we decide it’s safe to touch and hug family and friends? by Rowena Richie
40/ How Much Should I Pay?
With so many new offerings online what’s the right amount to pay for a class or performance? by Katie Taylor
Articles by Tobe Melora Correal, Dana Kawano, Frances Phillips, Marvin K. White, and Zakiya Harris
29 / We
—Wayne Hazzard, Artist Administrator
Cover: Rami Margron, photo by Robbie Sweeny Contents: photo by Robbie Sweeny
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