Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection
Erin: This Time Feels New
For the past eight years, Erin has been writing in every year, describing her life in dance. This year, she shares how the pandemic is new and scary terrain, and how she is thankful for the time to invest in a different way of being.
August 6, 2020 | Read Article
Sydney: Highs, Lows and Unexpected Blows
For the past eight years, Sydney has been writing in every year, describing her life in dance. This year she performed the lead in Giselle, finished her dance degree, and began auditioning for companies before managing disappointment and resiliently training at home once the pandemic hit.
August 3, 2020 | Read Article
Shaking Our Ground
"I feel like we have only just begun to understand the breadth of the field of disability in dance." Silva Laukkanen shares how working on the Discussing Disability in Dance Project has shaped her perspective.
July 23, 2020 | Read Article
Some Thoughts on Allyship and Path Building
Thoughts on allyship and building paths – to studios, to social safety nets, and to justice – from Stance on Dance's editor Emmaly Wiederholt.
June 4, 2020 | Read Article
Gestures of Erasure
Alice Blumenfeld questions if it is appropriate to apply Western terminologies toward cultural dance forms, like flamenco's soleá, and makes the case for a more culturally sensitive approach to comparing dance forms.
May 18, 2020 | Read Article