Frank William Shawl, a gay man who was dance artist, educator, and co-founder, along with the late Victor Anderson, of Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, died at his home Friday, October 4. He ...

Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson sit in a light-filled dance studio and look across the leafy intersection of Alcatraz and College avenues in Berkeley. "The liquor store was always there below," ...

Victor Virgil Anderson, former dancer, dance educator and co-founder of Berkeley’s 59-year-old Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, died Tuesday. He was 88 and a living institution in Bay Area dance circles.

When Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson sank roots in the Bay Area from New York City 60 years ago they discovered a gaping void in the Bay Area arts scene: contemporary dance had no home in the East Bay ...