San Francisco-based company Lenora Lee Dance explores the experiences of migrants and justice workers as they fight to change the policies that criminalize immigrants, separate families, and contribute to generational trauma.
Rukhmani Mehta, cofounder and co-artistic director of Leela Dance Collective in Los Angeles, describes how she instigated The Leela Foundation to promote the viability of kathak dance and Hindustani music in the US.
Rhode Island-based somatic practitioner Jules Pashall shares how fat can be used as a resource for performance and transformation.
Liz Brent-Maldonado’s illustrations for the fall/winter print publication of Stance on Dance feature magical realism and the everyday infused with otherworldly or surreal elements.
Julianna Massa profiles her pole dance teacher Irlanda, a dancer, choreographer, stripper, scholar, archivist, and the co-owner of Black Widow Pole Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on her perspective of her own artistry as a dancer and the future of pole dance as a field.