Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection
How Does Sap Dance Up Trees?
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EUGENE WILLIAMS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT How does sap dance up trees? Slide around like a snake uncoiling from the darkness of the roots where it sucks in moist nourishment? Flow like a wave on warm flat sand, even and […]
April 14, 2016 | Read Article
Pray for Me
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT Pray for me As I stand on the brink Of my garden Naked Covered in snow Like a prophet Returned from the earth To plant Ideas Pray for me As I exit the […]
April 11, 2016 | Read Article
That Skirt
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT dramas dance down the sidewalk I want that skirt want a level of magic a body heightened experience when the poet’s son and the reciter’s daughter dance it is magic healing, acceptance of […]
April 7, 2016 | Read Article
A Dancer’s Winter
BY GWYN HENRY; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! Written to the Movement Artists’ Ensemble: Quiet now our feet & deep our dance-less nod dreaming perhaps of movement dreaming perhaps of floor thirsting for mirrored light & yes quick silver notes that rise […]
April 4, 2016 | Read Article