Pray for Me

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   Pray for me As I stand on the brink Of my garden Naked Covered in snow Like a prophet Returned from the earth To plant Ideas   Pray for me As I exit the […]

April 11, 2016  |  Read Article

That Skirt

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   dramas dance down the sidewalk I want that skirt want a level of magic a body heightened experience   when the poet’s son and the reciter’s daughter dance it is magic healing, acceptance of […]

April 7, 2016  |  Read Article

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

Milk

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY MADELYN BIVEN; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I see a grey scarf and know nothing. Yellow-nosed nobodies bake bread on the sun. You strip tease hot details into batter and utter disaster, deaf diving like snow. We grew up watching ladybugs […]

April 30, 2015  |  Read Article