Stephanie Silvia

The Humboldt Folk Dancers are gearing up to present the 13th Arcata International Folk Dance Festival the weekend of April 13-15. This biennial event (as in every two years), started in 1995 as an annual affair until it “grew too big for our little community” to put together every year, explained Craig Kurumada, one of […]

Before the modern age of nuclear families, human beings lived in closely knit groups of tribes and villages. The seriously committed extended family was a part of everyday life. Today, not so much. It can get lonely. So, we do stuff together. The pursuits we follow bring us into instant pockets of intentional communities. We […]

Bring Your Own Seat Series presents, Short Stories: 23 Dances / 23 Minutes, at the Pan Arts Studio in Arcata, which is fast becoming the home base for modern dance classes in the area. Director Bonnie Hossack has laid out a unique structure in this show by limiting her group of invited choreographers to one […]

Mystery, romance, glamour. Pull out the feather boas and garter belts; it’s time to shimmy the night away in you slinkiest garb with your favorite Valentine or, maybe, the Valentine you’re destined to meet. The Beat Vixens, who you read about in these pages not long ago, present Cupid’s Coquettes, a Valentine’s burlesque event at […]

If you’ve never been to the splendidly refurbished Winema Theater in Scotia, Saturday night is your chance. That’s when the Ferndale Dance Academy presents its third annual Winter Concert, Second 2 None. Deep in the heart of the Eel River Valley, in a hamlet known for its staunch support of the gridiron, hoops and soccer, […]

Just as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade marks the start of the holiday season in New York City, Dell’Arte’s holiday production begins Humboldt’s yuletide festivities. The Dell’Arte graduate students and faculty who create each original production bring fresh ideas to the notion of theater and dance and what exactly we are celebrating here as the year […]

Walking around downtown Arcata, it’s impossible to miss the spacious new studio on Eighth Street that houses the Humboldt Capoeira Academy. The large storefront windows are curtain-less, inviting a full view of the dazzling wood floor and the martial arts classes that take place on it. After successfully operating for four years off the beaten […]

If the weather outside is frightful, don’t fret; there are plenty of reasons to be inside — and as always, the holidays bring dance. New World Ballet begins this holiday dance season with an evening of classical ballet in its studio over Thanksgiving weekend, and ends it with a formal gala event on New Year’s […]

“The culture of aloha means many different things. The aloha spirit is bigger and broader than love, than hello or goodbye,” says hula instructor Tatiana Kealoha Robinson, who grew up learning hula from her mother in their halau, or hula school on Oahu. More like a family than a school, a halau is a defining […]