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Jill Homan Randall

San Francisco Bay Area

Professional modern dancer, writer, and arts administrator

Interests: Intersection of language and movement, dance education and pedagogy, creative based dance, art in education, multimodal learning, educating future dance teachers, developing future professional modern dancers, teaching artists, networking in dance in the United States, arts administration, somatics

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2024 on the Blog, and Beyond

From Blog Director Jill Randall: Thank you for another year engaging with and supporting Life as a Modern Dancer. At the time of publication of this piece, there are 1,526 pieces on the site! Today I wanted to spotlight a few articles and projects from the year. Aviva Rose-Williams and... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Spotlighting and Celebrating Ten Performances in 2024 in the SF Bay Area

Left to right: SanSan Kwan, Chi Chi Chang, Johnny Cox, and Catalina O’Connor in "Convergence" by ChingChi Yu (March 2024). Image Description: Four dancers in a cluster in black costumes, looking upward with hands by their sternums. From Blog Director Jill Randall: Looking back at 2024, we covered 10 different... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Soft Skills & Essential Understandings for a Life and Career as a Modern Dancer

Photo of the author. Photo credit: Tony Nguyen. Soft Skills & Essential Understandings for a Life and Career as a Modern Dancer By Jill Randall I always love a list - for reflection, for inspiration, or for finding resources. To that end, I have been sketching out this list of... Continue reading

Posted Dec 29, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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New Dance Books in 2024

Photos of Sarah Stackhouse in Betti Franceschi's book Ageless Dancers Each December, one of my favorite activities is to compile this annual list of dance and somatic books. I hope a few titles pique your interest for personal reading or to use in a college course. Please share additional titles... Continue reading

Posted Dec 26, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Game Time Brings It

Aviva Rose-Williams and Molly Rose-Williams. Photo by Hillary Goidell. Game Time Brings It By Sarah Genta Like boxers in their pre-match corner, Aviva and Molly Rose-Williams are commiserating and getting psyched. Aviva chops Molly’s shoulders, pats down her back, gluts, hips. They switch. It’s Aviva’s turn. Reciprocal psych. As folks... Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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In Defense of “Under Rehearsed”

In Defense of “Under Rehearsed” By Jeanne Pfeffer Recently I attended a dance performance in the Bay Area that was critically reviewed in the local paper as “under rehearsed.” This is not the first, nor frankly, the last time we read such critique of dance performances in the Bay Area... Continue reading

Posted Nov 5, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Kimiko Guthrie, Claudine Naganuma, and SanSan Kwan in Conversation

Photos Credits: Two Doors by Robbie Sweeny | Unbound by Matt Haber By Kimiko Guthrie Last week, I was thrilled to sit down in person with artists Claudine Naganuma and SanSan Kwan to discuss their upcoming project, Threshold. Our conversation explored a wide range of topics, from re-examining the Asian... Continue reading

Posted Oct 15, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Preseason Play-By-Play: “Game Time” In Process

Aviva Rose-Williams and Molly Rose-Williams. Photo by Ezra Weill. Preseason Play-By-Play: “Game Time” In Process By Molly Rose-Williams When it comes to making shows, my sister and I are on the same page in lots of ways. (Yes, physical effort and slapstick humor! No, pulling audience members onstage! Sometimes words!... Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival Keeps The Conversation Going

FACT/SF in "Extra." Photo by Robbie Sweeny. FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival Keeps The Conversation Going By Garth Grimball On the opening night of the second weekend of FACT/SF’s 5th annual Summer Dance Festival, artistic director Charles Slender-White spoke about the importance of dialogue as a mission for the festival. Dialogue... Continue reading

Posted Sep 9, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Dancing from Fog City to the Big Apple

Dancer Lindsey Jones in the work of Pam Tanowitz. Photo by Liz Devine. Dancing from Fog City to the Big Apple By Garth Grimball The night before I left for a two-week trip to New York City I met the choreographer Rena Butler at a work event. She was in... Continue reading

Posted Aug 31, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Big Yes: Mia J. Chong's Eight/Moves, Season 1

Steam, choreographed by Mia J. Chong and KT Nelson. Photo by Maximillian Tortoriello. Big Yes: Mia J. Chong's Eight/Moves, Season 1 By Jill Randall Opening Thoughts: a poem Dancing - Virtuosity, strength, range, power, whole body-ness Small gestures Big commitment Fog And satin shirts And socks And partnering Effort exertion... Continue reading

Posted Aug 27, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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One Good Quote: Mia J. Chong's EIGHT/MOVES in Season 1

Kira Fargas. Photo by RJ Muna. Back in Fall 2017, Life as a Modern Dancer launched a new concept for post-performance discussion and writing. The goals were multi-fold: What are new ways to invite post-performance writing (since so few publications now print dance reviews, and there are fewer and fewer... Continue reading

Posted Aug 12, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Coming Together and Connecting: "Study Hall" with Emily Hansel and Collaborators

Study Hall. Photo by Natalia Perez. Image Description: Three dancers, wearing blues, oranges, and pinks, are caught walking in different directions. A mirror effect on the image causes blurry, duplicate images of their bodies. Coming Together and Connecting: Study Hall with Emily Hansel and Collaborators By Jill Randall Introduction I... Continue reading

Posted Jun 5, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Megan Lowe Dances Finds Partnership In "Just A Shadow"

Josh Icban and Megan Lowe. Photo by Vita Hewett. Megan Lowe Dances Finds Partnership In Just A Shadow By Garth Grimball Megan Lowe is prolific. In the past three years her company, Megan Lowe Dances, has produced or participated in 10 unique performances. On Friday night, Lowe and collaborators premiered... Continue reading

Posted Jun 3, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Drag, Modern Dance, and REBIRTH

Hollywood Texas. Photo by Sloane Kanter. Drag, Modern Dance, and REBIRTH By Garth Grimball “Since I don’t have any pee, will someone spit in my mouth instead?” performer Hollow Eve requested midway through REBIRTH: The Death of Drag. Fellow castmates obliged. On May 17-19 Oaklash celebrated its seventh year of... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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"Undercurrents" with Carol Kueffer and ChingChi Yu

ChingChi Yu and Carol Kueffer in "Veil of Water." Photo by Aileen Kim. From Blog Director Jill Randall: Both Melissa Hudson Bell and I got to experience the "Undercurrents" performance a few weeks ago, a shared weekend with choreographers ChingChi Yu and Carol Kueffer. Melissa reflects on the first half... Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Kayla Farrish directs film into dance

Kayla Farrish (foreground) in "Put Away the Fire, dear." Photo by Elyse Mertz. Kayla Farrish directs film into dance By Garth Grimball Ours is a time of references. The average smartphone user consumes more content in an hour than our ancestors did in their whole lives. Text, images, videos, sounds,... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Rite on the ground(s)

Rite on the ground(s) By Garth Grimball On Feb 16-18, Cal Performances brought to Zellerbach Hall a special production of Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring. For only the fourth time since the dance’s creation, it was performed by dancers outside of Pina Bausch’s home company Tanztheater Wuppertal. This production features... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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5 Questions for Abby Crain about the KH FRESH Festival

This year is the 15th year for the KH FRESH Festival. It is an incredible feat to keep a project going and thriving over the years. Check out the full list of its exciting offerings here. This week I got to talk with Abby Crain, a longtime festival team member... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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“Touch Of RED” Touches Deeply

"Touch of Red" (photo taken at MASS MoCA). Photographer credit: The Adeboye Brothers. Touch Of RED Touches Deeply By Garth Grimball On Saturday, January 13, Shamel Pitts | TRIBE presented Touch Of RED in a dance studio at NY Live Arts as part of the Live Artery festival; the festival... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Who’s your CRUSH?

Molly Rose-Williams. Photo: Chani Bockwinkel. Who’s your CRUSH? By Garth Grimball Molly Rose-Williams has a crush on you. CRUSH, an evening-length solo choreographed and performed by Rose-Williams, opened January 19 at NOHSpace. The work is an evolution of We Are All Friends that premiered in 2022. Both works are concerned... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Five Questions for Molly Rose-Williams about "CRUSH"

Molly Rose-Williams. Photo credit: Molly Laurano. This week, I got to catch up with Molly Rose-Williams as she prepares for her latest solo show, CRUSH, in the San Francisco Bay Area. CRUSH runs for 6 performances: Jan 19-21 & 25-27. Tickets are selling fast, so grab yours here (NOTA). ------------... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2024 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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On the Blog and Beyond, in 2023

MoToR/Dance performs "Water in the Kettle." Photo by Dean Bosche. Review+Response: 7 Performances in the SF Bay Area in 2023 From Blog Director Jill Randall: Thank you for another wonderful year on Life as a Modern Dancer. As the year comes to a close, I always enjoy looking back over... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2023 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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Review+Response: 7 Performances in the SF Bay Area in 2023

Megan Lowe Dances presents "Gathering Pieces of a Peace." Dancers (far left, then clockwise): Melissa Lewis Wong, Malia Hatico-Byrne, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, and Megan Lowe. Photo by Hewitt Visuals. 2023 was a hopeful year with more and more live performances to experience. Today I repost about the 7 performances that... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2023 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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New Dance Books in 2023

One of my favorite posts each year is this one - a list of books on dance, arts education, arts administration, and somatics. Please add a Comment if there are titles missing here. I am always on the lookout, and got to read many of the titles below throughout the... Continue reading

Posted Dec 29, 2023 at Life as a Modern Dancer

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