Articles from the ‘Dancing Over 50 Project’ collection

What Does the World Call Better? An Interview with Nancy Evans Doede

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Nancy was like a road. She was long and far-sighted, and had passed through many terrains. It was not only her story that was configured like a road, but her movement as well. “Let’s see,” she said to herself before she began to […]

September 25, 2017  |  Read Article

Desire and Willpower: An Interview with Deborah Wolf

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Deborah said she liked to wear socks while dancing. Conversely, watching her dance seemed as simple as watching her put on her socks – it happened with such ease and lack of pretension so as to almost seem prosaic. When a dance is akin […]

September 22, 2017  |  Read Article

A Living Tradition: Jayanthi Raman

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Not quite 50, our youngest dancer explained she knew few others, even in India, dancing this particular form of Indian classical dance at her age. As the sun rose above the trees behind her, the colorful whirl of Jayanthi’s dance grew like a […]

September 20, 2017  |  Read Article

I Trust Dance: An Interview with Josie Moseley

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING “Do you want me to dance?” Josie asked. But before she had reached the end of her sentence, she had literally jumped into a combination. She emoted, expressed, whirled and twirled in her long black swirling coat. One might describe her as regal […]

September 18, 2017  |  Read Article

A Wisdom Practice: An Interview with Tara Stepenberg

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Tara struck me as a seeker; measured, meditative and ever moving forward. Like steel, she was grounded and supported; like lace, she was delicate; like sand, she was susceptible to the pull of the tide. And it was that shifting and sifting that […]

September 15, 2017  |  Read Article