Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection
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
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