Cracking the Surface of Possibility

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Mark Travis Rivera is a choreographer, writer, public speaker and advocate who lives in the world of intersectionality. Latino, gay, gender-non conforming and disabled, Mark’s life is a testament to how much agency a young person can have. In fact, the 26-year-old holds the distinction of being the youngest person to found […]

April 15, 2017  |  Read Article

Rethinking Dance and Disability

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Mary Verdi-Fletcher shares her history founding and directing Dancing Wheels, a company and school based out of Cleveland, OH that has been uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities since 1980. Mary was one of the first professional wheelchair dancers […]

April 8, 2017  |  Read Article

We’re More Alike Than Different

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Wayne M. Smith shares his experience working with Playback Memphis and Company d. Through Playback Memphis, Wayne helps bring together police officers and formerly incarcerated individuals to build a performance on their cumulative experience. Wayne also teaches at Company d, a dance company comprised […]

December 19, 2016  |  Read Article

We All Had Our Shoes On

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Amii LeGendre has taught dance to incarcerated men in New York through two programs: the Bard Prison Initiative and Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She is a wellness coordinator and dance professor at Bard College, and is currently performing a new dance/theatre solo called “I’m looking at you as if” about her experience teaching dance […]

December 10, 2016  |  Read Article

When She Moved Her Story

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Peggy Lamb and Barbara Abbate volunteer with incarcerated women through an organization called Truth be Told in detention facilities in Austin, TX. Peggy, a dancer and massage therapist, teaches creative movement through the Talk To Me – Movement series. Similarly, Barbara, an actress and public speaker, theatrically works with women through the […]

December 3, 2016  |  Read Article