A Flourishing Resilient Community
Desert Movement Arts, based in California’s Coachella Valley, is a collective rooted in improvisation, collaboration, ritual, explorations, collages and choreography. Its practices are inspired by the…
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Embodiment as a Feminist Practice
BY MADISON PAGE “The body uses its skin and deeper fascia and flesh to record all that goes on around it. Like the Rosetta Stone, for those who know how to read it, the body…
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Creating a More Inclusive World
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Marisa Hamamoto, founder and director of Infinite Flow, the first inclusive ballroom dance company in the…
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Contact Improv’s Leviathan Studio
An Interview with Mark Young BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY SOREN WACKER Mark Young founded and built Leviathan, a dance studio dedicated to contact improvisation on Lasqueti…
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A Flower in the Woods
Michael Doran and his recently deceased partner, Barry Lynn, founded Chalicestream, a dance center in the north woods of Wisconsin. Over the course of 40 years, they built a…
Outside Institutions
An Interview with Patricia Chen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Patricia Chen is a dancer, teacher and choreographer living in Bordeaux, France. After a career in New York,…
Embodiment as a Feminist Practice
Creating a More Inclusive World
Contact Improv’s Leviathan Studio
A Flower in the Woods
Up and Away in Flagstaff
An Interview with Abby Chan of Dark Sky Aerial Dark Sky Aerial is an aerial dance theater company based in Flagstaff, Arizona, comprised of dancers, acrobats, actors,…
Pace and Space
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT There’s no denying that different environments – big cities, small towns, countryside retreats, even different geographical areas like foggy coastlines or expansive deserts…
Dancing Throughout Life with Ballet 4 Life
An Interview with Donna Schoenherr BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Donna Schoenherr is the founder and director of Ballet 4 Life and Move into Wellbeing® in London. In…