Why I Dance

Julia Roth helped produce Why I Dance, a pole dance film about women who come together to reclaim their bodies and themselves.  BY JULIA ROTH It’s an understatement to say Why I Dance changed my life. It cracked open parts of me I had kept locked up, in fear of overflowing. I bottled […]

June 1, 2015  |  Read Article

Finding Room to Dance

An Introduction to the Where Dance Is Series BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I didn’t move to Santa Fe to dance, though I knew I wasn’t finished dancing. I didn’t know what I was going to find, but the last thing I expected to find was room. In […]

May 4, 2015  |  Read Article

Here it Comes, There it Goes

BY MALINDA LAVELLE I am plagued by the phrase “I don’t know.” In a world where any given piece of advice has a separate and equally valid piece of counter advice, I find the more questions I ask, the fewer answers I have and the more decisions I hesitate to […]

March 26, 2015  |  Read Article

I Wanted More

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY JOY PRENDERGAST Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Salt Lake City 2005 I was 17, in […]

March 19, 2015  |  Read Article

Life as Dance and Dance as Life

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY WIEBKE SCHUSTER Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal in Cafe Mueller and Rite of Spring Sadler’s Wells, London 2008 “It’s […]

March 16, 2015  |  Read Article