My Most Challenging Year Yet

Each summer for the past three years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in order for them to answer however it resonates personally. My goal is to create a yearly check-in by which to chart how these young women […]

June 29, 2015  |  Read Article

An Enhanced Understanding

Each summer for the past three years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in order for them to answer however it resonates personally. My goal is to create a yearly check-in by which to chart how these young […]

June 25, 2015  |  Read Article

We Will See

Each summer for the past three years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in order for them to answer however it resonates personally. My goal is to create a yearly check-in by which to chart how these young […]

June 22, 2015  |  Read Article

When Ballet and Contact Improvisation Meet

BY SOPHIA ROG; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT This past spring, my friend Emmaly and I rented a little studio in Santa Fe on Thursday afternoons. The studio’s previous purpose was a two-car garage… so, it’s tiny, and not all that toasty in the early spring until the heater has been […]

June 18, 2015  |  Read Article

How Can Making Dance be a Feminist Act?

Hello, we are Courtney King and Melissa Lewis. In the last year, we have been molding and developing a dance collective called hers and hers — her (Courtney), plus her (Melissa), plus the shared her. As young, fresh-cut artists, we feel very new. Though we claim the title of co-founders cautiously, […]

June 11, 2015  |  Read Article