Articles from the ‘contemporary dance’ collection

Contemporary Dance through a Latin American Lens

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT This article is part of a series on contemporary dance and its extended implications. Liz Durán Boubion is a Bay Area dancer/choreographer, artistic director of the Piñata Dance Collective, and a second generation Mexican American. A few years ago, she went to Mexico for an artistic residency, and […]

December 5, 2016  |  Read Article

The Many Contexts of Contemporary

An Interview with Lucy Vurusic Riner RE|dance group is a Chicago-based dance collective dedicated to the presentation of dance theatre works that examine the many facets of personal, intimate human relationships. Executive director and co-founder Lucy Vurusic Riner shares her thoughts on what “contemporary” means in the dance context. This interview […]

December 1, 2016  |  Read Article

Where Modern and Contemporary Meet

An Interview with Sandra Kaufmann BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Sandra Kaufmann performed in the Martha Graham Dance Company before serving as the founding director of the dance program at Loyola University. As an educator and practitioner, she shares her perspective on contemporary dance and where the form is headed. This interview […]

November 28, 2016  |  Read Article

Researching Contemporary Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PAINTING BY JULIA COST I’m here to say: I don’t really know what contemporary dance is. “Contemporary” means new, so therefore contemporary dance must be relatively new choreography or composition. Most of us who have pursued dance (in almost any genre) have at some point encountered the […]

November 21, 2016  |  Read Article