The Changing Face of Dance Writing

An Interview with Siobhan Burke BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Siobhan Burke is a dance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She contributes regularly to The New York Times and Dance Magazine, where she was an editor from 2008 to 2013. She shares her perspective on how the field of dance writing […]

March 20, 2017  |  Read Article

A Brave New World of Dance-Writing

An Interview with Sandi Kurtz Sandi Kurtz is a dance critic based in Seattle who writes for Seattle Weekly and Seattle Dances. She reflects on the changes and subsequent implications she’s noticed in the field of dance-writing over the past couple decades. ~~ How did you get into writing about […]

March 18, 2017  |  Read Article

Rendering Dance into Words

An Interview with Trina Mannino BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Trina Mannino is a dancer and dance writer in New York City who currently writes for The Dance Enthusiast and Dance Europe. In this interview, she shares her perspective on dance writing, the strengths and weaknesses of the field, and how it […]

March 16, 2017  |  Read Article

Happy 5th Birthday Stance on Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE STACK One Saturday night five years ago, while rather inebriated with my roommates in the kitchen of our San Francisco flat, I had an idea. Just as there’s the publication The Onion that puts out fake news with the intention of illuminating farcical aspects […]

March 13, 2017  |  Read Article