Articles from the ‘Where Are You With Dance?’ collection

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

A Hard Lesson, A New Path

Editorial Note: Where are you in dance right now? I’ve posed this question to twelve high-school dancers the past two years. My intention is to ask them each year for as long as they respond, hopefully chronicling their growth through the practice of dance. One young dancer, Annie Aguilar, responded late this year. […]

September 25, 2014  |  Read Article

The Importance of Not Always Being Earnest

Editorial Note: Where are you in dance right now? I’ve posed this question to twelve high-school dancers the past two years. My intention is to ask them each year for as long as they respond, hopefully chronicling their growth through the practice of dance. One young dancer, Felicitas Fischer, responded late this year. […]

September 8, 2014  |  Read Article

Where are you in dance right now?

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Where are you in dance right now? I posed this question to twelve high-school dancers last year. My intention is to ask them each year for as long as they respond, hopefully chronicling their growth through the practice of dance. Only eight of the original twelve high-schoolers responded to my […]

July 24, 2014  |  Read Article