Let One Inform the Other

By Angela Mazziotta If there is one thing I have pursued tenaciously and whole-heartedly, it’s that blobby identity crisis which bleeds freely over lines and seeps into genres with or without invitation; the dance form which loves to be called rebellious and shrugs when it’s misunderstood by the vast majority […]

January 16, 2014  |  Read Article

Ballet is…

By Emmaly Wiederholt Let’s point our toes and get to the pointe: the topic on the table is good ol’ ballet – yes, that couple-hundred-year-old dance form we can thank Louis the XIV for inventing and the Nutcracker for perpetuating. Is ballet still relevant? Is it important to practice? Is […]

January 9, 2014  |  Read Article

Getting Good at Dance

By Emmaly Wiederholt Have you heard about Karen X. Cheng, who taught herself to dance in a year by video recording herself practicing dance each day which she then made into a time-lapse video that went viral? I hadn’t heard of her until recently when I was in the audience […]

December 9, 2013  |  Read Article

Everyone Should Dance

By Stephanie Salts In a farewell speech to the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance summer students and their parents, Summer Lee Rhatigan closed her thoughts and thanks with these abrupt few words, “And finally, I think everyone should dance.” It was funny because she wasn’t talking about people with coordination, […]

December 5, 2013  |  Read Article

My Experience with Creative Dance Therapy

By Jessa Freeman I recently had the honor of exploring Creative Dance Psychology with my friend Rachel Jordana. She is a doctor in Psychology and a dance enthusiast who found the joy of movement while finishing her studies.  If it hadn’t been for her joy and fun peer pressure I […]

September 26, 2013  |  Read Article