Urgent Demands, Urgent Responses

Bay Area-based writer and dancer Marlena Gittleman shares her empowering experience at a workshop with Colectivo LASTESIS, the feminist Chilean performance art collective.

December 15, 2025  |  Read Article

The Urgency of Accessibility in Higher Education Dance Training

Bradford Chin, a disabled dance artist, DEIJ/accessibility consultant, and audio describer for dance based in Chicago and San Francisco, argues why higher education needs to make dance training more accessible for students with disabilities.

May 6, 2024  |  Read Article

Giving Children Room to Dance

New York City-based psychologist, dance/movement therapist, and dance educator Diane Duggan shares highlights from her long career as well as how dance for students with disabilities has changed over the decades, and what a dance education might look like in the future.

March 9, 2020  |  Read Article

Exploring Afrofuturism through Dance and Art

An Interview with Layna Lewis and Kayla Banks BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOGRAPHS BY NINA LEWIS Viva La Free is a nonprofit in Portland, Oregon that creates art healing projects and public art to energize, enchant and heal communities, centering vulnerable and marginalized populations most impacted by systems of oppression and […]

May 9, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing With and Without Adjectives

An Interview with Amelia Uzategui Bonilla BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Amelia Uzategui Bonilla is a dance artist and educator who regularly performs and teaches in the United States and Peru. In 2013, she founded the Río Danza Comunitaria in Peru, an organization that protects water rights through community performance and arts […]

January 21, 2019  |  Read Article