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2009 | Best Tap-Dance Teacher

All the teachers at ODC are good. But someone new has come along whodeserves a big holler: tap dancer Tyler Knowlin. This former New Yorkerseems to have perfected that handsome scarecrow Savion Glover style:It's all relaxed, swinging arms on top, with deceptively loose anklesand precision shuffles on the ground. Unsurprisingly, he has performedamong the giants in New York City, including Glover and the late, greatGregory Hines. In Knowlin's Rhythm Tap classes, loud-footed... More »
2005 | Best Dance Company

ODC/San Francisco is proof that you don't need to have an outpost in New York to be a successful dance company. Founded in 1971 by Artistic Director Brenda Way, who trained under George Balanchine, ODC is a benchmark for West Coast choreography, performing for more than 50,000 people each year. Its prolific catalog of pieces results from the fact that its 10 dancers work 42 weeks of the year; it even opens its doors to spectators interested in auditions and rehearsals. ODC's modern dance... More »

One Scandalous Movement

By : Silke Tudor | Wed, April 25, 2012

Few dance troupes possess the elegance, humor, and subversive sensuality necessary to approach the Bloomsbury Set as subject matter, but it is a milieu in which Jenny McAllister’s 13th Floor Dance Theater thrives. Directed like a reality TV show f... More »
Life’s Only Constant

By Ruby Perez | Wed, February 29, 2012

Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go! was something we often turned to as we entered new stages in life. However, we realize things don’t always work as Dr. Seuss said they would -- the bitter reality being that life is not always 2-D psychedelic t... More »
The Body Can’t Lie

By Keith Bowers | Wed, February 08, 2012

Seeing a dance choreographed by Holly Johnson is like going to a Tennessee Williams play where the actors have forgotten how to speak and instead deliver their lines through movement. Her latest piece, Want, which has its world premier this weeken... More »
Wong Is the Loneliest Number

By Hiya Swanhuyser | Wed, November 02, 2011

Kristina Wong broke her own heart via four years of touring her one-woman show about depression. It was called Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and it took on the high incidence of suicide among Asian American women. Apparently, that’s the kind o... More »

2009 | Best Tap-Dance Teacher