When Performance Shatters Me

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 CHRISTIAN BURNS Standing in a lightless arena-sized room (the blackness representing everything I don’t know) holding a flashlight […]

February 23, 2015  |  Read Article

Art worth living for.

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 RANDEE PAUFVE SUNY Brockport, January 1985.  My first round of grad school. I went to either exorcise dance […]

February 19, 2015  |  Read Article

I value the bravery of vulnerability.

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 CHRISTY FUNSCH; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER Julie Mayo’s Softspace/as if it were night Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, […]

February 16, 2015  |  Read Article

She was GOING for it.

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 CHARLES SLENDER-WHITE William Forsythe’s In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated, San Francisco Ballet 2010 I have been obsessed with […]

February 9, 2015  |  Read Article

What is and isn’t dance? Who can be a dancer?

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 KATHARINE HAWTHORNE Lecture by Ann Carlson Cantor Art Center, Stanford 2008 What is dance?  And what is not […]

February 5, 2015  |  Read Article