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