Directors Kat Cole and Eric Garcia are being nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for BECKON (December 4-13, 2016 at NOHspace). The Izzie Award Ceremony will take place March 27, 2017 at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco.
Read MoreNEWS: Eric Garcia receives 2017 CHIME Award! /
Co-Director Eric Garcia received a 2017 CHIME Award. He will be working alongside Nol Simonse, Jenny Stulberg, and Lauren Simpson with mentor Margaret Jenkins over the course of the year.
Read MoreREAD: Stance on Dance - The View from Here by Eric Garcia /
Each August, Stance on Dance asks dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Co-Director Eric Garcia redefines "making it" in dance as a balance between vertical aspiration and horizontal exploration.
Read MorePODCAST: Co-Director Eric Garcia featured on The Undefined - A Profile of a Generation /
This episode, Eric Garcia talks about his drag performances and keeping a gritty low budget drag show in a changing San Francisco. We discuss his performance company, Detour Dance and their evolving mission and maturing body of work. We also talk about his work for Sean Dorsey, an acclaimed dancer and head of Fresh Meat Productions, a company devoted to transgender and queer arts. Finally, we get into identity and how Eric is using dance to explore himself as a person of color and as a gay man.
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Read MoreREAD: Stance on Dance - A Foray into Dances for Camera by Kat Cole /
Co-Director Kat Cole shares some thoughts on dance film and how it's a different vantage point for creating and sharing dance.
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