Articles from the ‘Dancing Over 50 Project’ collection

A Labor of Love: The Dancing Over 50 Project

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING It’s Labor Day, and thus I want to share with you my recent labor: the Dancing Over 50 Project, a collaboration I have had the honor of working on over the past two years with photographer Gregory Bartning. We have just completed a […]

September 7, 2015  |  Read Article

Turn the Dancing Over 50 Project into a Book!

Hello friends and dance-lovers! I’d like to invite you to support the Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the Dancing Over 50 Project, an over two year collaboration with photographer Gregory Bartning interviewing and photographing dancers over 50 along the west coast. To date, we have interviewed over 50 dancers in […]

August 20, 2015  |  Read Article

“I’m Still Here”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Over the past three months, I’ve had the honor of publishing 16 interviews with dancers over age 50 in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. What follows here is a particularly potent morsel from each interview: Click on photos to read full interview. Linda […]

January 26, 2015  |  Read Article

The Articulation of Expression: An Interview with Mark Haim

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING After I posed each question to Mark, he would pause, deep in thought. There was nothing unconsidered in his answers. After the interview, he very spontaneously sat down and began playing the piano. Music and dance rolled off Mark the way words didn’t. […]

January 22, 2015  |  Read Article

Digging Deep: An Interview with Rubina Carmona

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Rubina has Parkinson’s disease. On a street near her home, in the community in which she has come to be a leader, she moved through her flamenco poses with neither the strength nor the power she’d had in earlier days, but with a […]

January 19, 2015  |  Read Article