Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

Sand Dance

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY AND ARTWORK BY HADLEY NUNES; PHOTO BY VINCENT RICAFORT Let’s see, where did I leave off? It was the hearing, well that and a whole host of issues. I found Merwin. He saved me. The poem I memorized is as follows: […]

April 2, 2015  |  Read Article

A Toast! To Dance!

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT A Toast! To our first pink slippers, worn out more than grown out. To our first taste of performance. To our first taste of obsession. To our first acceptance and first rejection.   A Toast! To dripping sweat turned dried sweat and to dripping tears turned dried […]

March 30, 2015  |  Read Article

What if Ballet splits her bunhead open…

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER What if Ballet splits her bunhead open And the only place left to turn is out? Swans eat bugs and swallows swarm the lake And the only thing left to swallow is an atrophied tendu. And plie and one two three four… Are […]

October 30, 2014  |  Read Article

Measure the Music: Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite

BY JAKE PADILLA For the past two months, Stance on Dance has been focusing on ballet with perspectives from various dance artists and the occasional Bunion knocking famous ballets. To close all this ballet hullabaloo, let’s rock out to Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird. Starting at measure 206 from the finale of the Firebird […]

March 13, 2014  |  Read Article

Measure the Music: Third Eyed Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life”

By Jake Padilla Let’s ring in Boxing Day with Measure 116 – THE TRIPLET PART!! In music, triplets are three beats compacted into two! Imagine two car lanes with three cars riding abreast down those lanes. Dangerous in driving. Dangerous in MUSIC. Dangerously AWESOME!!! I have always held an affinity […]

December 26, 2013  |  Read Article