In January, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a Minister of Loneliness for the United Kingdom. Yes, that’s across the pond, but the move has implications far beyond the U.K. Many of us feel ...

1 Christina Rose Hall and Aaron Kaburick Join BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Tour The critically acclaimed San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival returns this October in a brand new format: film. The San Francisco ...

Some in the audience were crying. Others were silent but no less moved. Happens frequently during performances at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, but this was different. This was San ...

Group folk dancing has long been considered a non-verbal, universal language that brings people together. The Midwest Folk Dance Association held its June Camp Folk Dance Weekend, June 12 – 15, at ...

An ethnic community has to find a way to impart its traditions to the next generation if it wants to keep alive that spark or flicker of sweeping cultural history and identity. Such traditions can be ...

Forty years ago, Isabel Piana made her Folk Fair debut when her group performed the traditional "Singkil" dance. This weekend, she reprises the role of the "umbrella girl" at the 67th edition of ...

Whenever I hear talking heads on a certain national TV station evoking “diversity” like a dangerous word, I yearn to show them two Bay Area spectacles. The first is any Saturday afternoon on Oakland’s ...