Dance Costumes and Life Lessons

  BY LIZ BRENT This spring marks the anniversary of one of my longest-running costume jobs. As of April, I have worked for five years in a row with the ODC Dance Jam. From 2012 to 2017, I have costumed the teen company for the ODC School Youth and Teen […]

May 1, 2017  |  Read Article

Happy 5th Birthday Stance on Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE STACK One Saturday night five years ago, while rather inebriated with my roommates in the kitchen of our San Francisco flat, I had an idea. Just as there’s the publication The Onion that puts out fake news with the intention of illuminating farcical aspects […]

March 13, 2017  |  Read Article

A Body Steeped

Reflections on Sisters & druthers BY TODD COURAGE On November 12th, a number of rich ideas were unveiled at a mixed program of dance at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. The concert, Sisters & druthers, was a mélange of new and old works by three women who seemed to share […]

January 26, 2017  |  Read Article

Post Contemporary Dance: Are We There Yet?

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER For the past two months, I have been publishing interviews with contemporary dance artists, trying to address (for both myself and my faithful readers) what exactly contemporary dance entails. Because, to be honest, I’ve always been a bit dubious about contemporary dance. It […]

January 19, 2017  |  Read Article

Researching Contemporary Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PAINTING BY JULIA COST I’m here to say: I don’t really know what contemporary dance is. “Contemporary” means new, so therefore contemporary dance must be relatively new choreography or composition. Most of us who have pursued dance (in almost any genre) have at some point encountered the […]

November 21, 2016  |  Read Article