Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection
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
Piñata Solo
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY LIZ BOUBION; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT In the beginning, I am a beet red baby born in a heat wave in the LA basin. Candy melts inside a pinata moon hanging in the backyard Four sweaty brothers with grass-stained knees line […]
April 27, 2017 | Read Article
I Want to Give You the Lines
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY SEBASTIAN GRUBB; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I want to give you the lines from my palms, give you the twisting circuitry of my heart, the music of valves with blood rushing through, the flutter of eyelashes brushing skin; give you […]
April 24, 2017 | Read Article
The Man from Cleveland is Leaving
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT 10 years in this land with no Bros no Black humor no one watching your back this is not a scramble at the market with a boom box back up band or an all […]
April 22, 2017 | Read Article