Surprise!

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY RACHELLE WOODS; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN try please only try   penetrate eyes patterns   support transformation unity   submit to a magic man   be full the sacred fool   follow impulse cultivate energy   allow no judgment liberate […]

April 6, 2015  |  Read Article

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

Thrown

Poem by Madelyn Biven; Painting by Julia Cost Cross lines of a highway makes romance bleed, our feet become moonlight crimson echo of the eros between sand and heat (something fine like crushed sun as if the sun could become gold dust). I became a dove and dove into your […]

May 13, 2013  |  Read Article