Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

Dance When You’re Perfectly Free

Nothing re-inspires the soul quite like a poem… here’s a little end-of-year poetic inspiration to dance, dance, dance. Illustrations by Liz Brent ~~ I AM REALLY JUST A TAMBOURINE By Hafiz Good Poetry Makes the universe admit a Secret: “I am Really just a tambourine, Grab hold, Play me Against […]

December 28, 2015  |  Read Article

The Ladies of MAE

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT More than once since launching the Dancing Over 50 Project, older dancers from around the country have reached out to me to express interest and support. When Gwyn Henry wrote me about Movement Artists Ensemble (MAE) – a group of women in Escondido, CA who are moving […]

November 12, 2015  |  Read Article

Red Dance

BY KATHERINE LANSING DAVIS; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER Emmaly, 29, talks to dancers over 50. Her passion — a book with photos. She has an amazing photographer who will follow her anywhere… in the free world. Emmaly is 5’8” but always wears stilettos. Her favorites are blood red to match […]

September 28, 2015  |  Read Article

Milk

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY MADELYN BIVEN; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I see a grey scarf and know nothing. Yellow-nosed nobodies bake bread on the sun. You strip tease hot details into batter and utter disaster, deaf diving like snow. We grew up watching ladybugs […]

April 30, 2015  |  Read Article

Circling from 10,000 Feet

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY KATIE FLOREZ; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN Circling from 10,000 feet I unfurl the oily cable Into a measured swirl beneath me. Montreal on a snowy Tuesday afternoon.   I push back my knit beanie Too hot from dancing, sliding down […]

April 27, 2015  |  Read Article