Claudia Bauer

Notorious for violence, Oakland’s Black-nationalist Black Panther Party gets less recognition for its humanitarian efforts, such as free breakfast for schoolkids and no-cost health...

Dance is the most primal of art forms, an embodied channel for human ideas from ritual, to classicism, to abstraction. Experience all those and...

Brittani Sensabaugh aka BrittSense. Credits: Photo by Lance Yamamoto        Best Oakland Photo Documentarian     Brittani Sensabaugh aka BrittSense ...

Some emotions defy explanation; they simply must be felt. And that, according to Randee Paufve, is why we dance. "Dance and live performance are...

"I was thinking about the body, and where we come from, where we go back to," said Oakland contemporary choreographer Randee Paufve, describing the...

The East Bay dance community has been busy, and that industriousness is about to pay off in an abundant performance season. Notable local dance...

When Walnut Creek's Diablo Ballet asked the Twitterverse to contribute ideas for the world's first crowdsourced ballet early in January, the company didn't know...

Asking Alonzo King to describe a dance he has choreographed is, to paraphrase Rodgers and Hammerstein, like trying to pin down a cloud. "Often...