Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

Exploring an Empty Dance Studio

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY GWYN HENRY; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I embrace the corner this juncture of walls a meeting place for spine and sheet rock.   Demarcation. A map, a sign: this way will hold you true.   As I go along the wall […]

April 12, 2018  |  Read Article

My Body’s Notebook

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CONSUELO GONZALEZ; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT A prayer is rolling in like fog on the smooth wood floor, waiting to be kicked up by our heels and toes and stirred. A prayer is our energy focused, dancing a trio, moving from […]

April 9, 2018  |  Read Article

Let Pretense Go

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CHERYL PALLANT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   This she is also an I. I am listening. There is this way of knowing. With bones, breath, a sideways glance, a whisper.   She walks across grass and down the corridor, struts in […]

April 5, 2018  |  Read Article

Wind of My Soul

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY LAURA HAYES-MEERMAN; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT The wind blows So softly Through my lips. The right side Holds so much. Opening my pelvis I drop deep And feel my sorrow. I hold so much Do I dare Speak my truth. The […]

April 2, 2018  |  Read Article

Screendance: The Newest Genre

An Interview with John Watson BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT John Watson is a photographer, videographer and arts promoter based in Eugene, OR who cofounded the Northwest Screendance Exposition in 2015 to encourage the making and viewership of dances created especially for the camera. He discusses the expo as well as the […]

December 28, 2017  |  Read Article