• A group of women wearing yellow shirts lift their arms above their heads and look up.

    The Healing Power of Movement

    Lucy Wallace, director of Dance To Be Free, facilitates dance in prisons to reduce anxiety and depression through the healing power of movement.

  • A shirtless dancer reaches up to the light. Their hand is blurred in movement. The background is dark.

    Fragility and Disability Discourse

    Alessandro Schiattarella, an Italian dance artist based in Switzerland, shares his journey as a dancer with a disability, his choreographic processes, and his experience creating…

  • An illustration of a dancer wearing a pink dress showing her back with raised arms. The background is black.

    Capturing Raw Moments

    Albuquerque-based visual and dance artist Erica Wilson renders raw and surrealist moments in dance in her quest to capture gesture and flow.

  • Several children follow a dance class on a wood floor.

    Where Dance and Literacy Meet

    Talia Bailes, director of Ballet and Books, describes how her nonprofit works nationally to reduce the literacy gap through the hybrid storytelling of dance and reading.

    Several dancers extend an arm in unison while dancing in long purple dresses outside the Iolani Palace.

    Hula as Resistance

    Vicky Holt Takamine, master hula teacher of Pua Aliʻi ʻIlima and the executive director of PAʻI Foundation, describes how she is working to preserve and perpetuate native Hawaiian arts and cultural traditions for future generations.

    A group of women wearing yellow shirts lift their arms above their heads and look up. The Healing Power of Movement
    A shirtless dancer reaches up to the light. Their hand is blurred in movement. The background is dark. Fragility and Disability Discourse
    An illustration of a dancer wearing a pink dress showing her back with raised arms. The background is black. Capturing Raw Moments
    Several children follow a dance class on a wood floor. Where Dance and Literacy Meet