Moving To Change with Movement Exchange

By Mei-Ling Murray This past July, ten U.S. dancers, ages 17-35, with dance training in jazz, ballet, tap, hip hop, salsa, and modern, traveled to Panama as volunteers to teach at-risk youth, as well as learn and perform dance through collaboration with local professionals. For two weeks, from dawn until […]

September 8, 2012  |  Read Article

Impressions from CHIME Across Borders with Elizabeth Streb

By Emmaly Wiederholt When I walked into the room the first time the dancers and choreographers were progressing linearly across the floor in the most unusual and varied ways; Charles Slender one-hand cartwheeled while Kelly Del Rosario sat in a pike and nudged himself forward via his arms. Others chose […]

September 1, 2012  |  Read Article

From the Inside Out: Dancing (Quietly) in China

By Emily Withenbury The very first words I learned in Mandarin Chinese were “wu, liu, qi, ba.” This was December 2010 in a dance studio in Beijing, China. I learned these words so we could count our collaborating Chinese dancers in on the “5, 6, 7, 8.” Two weeks ago I took […]

August 13, 2012  |  Read Article

Let’s Get Wriggly

By Emmaly Wiederholt When did people become afraid to get up and wriggle in front of each other? My mom posed this question to the family after we attended the Shroyer Community Center 4th Annual Rock n’ Roll Party near Chama, NM. With dinner buffet followed by 50’s dance tunes, […]

August 9, 2012  |  Read Article

Building a studio: The tale of 975 Howard Studio

By Derek Harris             When my partner Meegan and I first began to contemplate starting our own dance space, a famous quote from an old baseball movie kept coming to mind.  “If you build it, they will come.”  Well, building a baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field […]

July 12, 2012  |  Read Article