How Things Fell into Place: An Interview with Frank Shawl

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Sunlight streamed through the windows of the upstairs studio in Berkeley’s Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the school Frank Shawl co-founded in 1958 with Victor Anderson. Whether onstage, in a classroom, or simply in conversation, Frank had an electric energy; he seemed at times to […]

October 10, 2013  |  Read Article

In It for the Long Run: A Series of Interviews and Photographs with Dancers over Fifty

By Emmaly Wiederholt; Photographs by Gregory Bartning Mrs. Lucy Hayden was an old woman whose body constantly trembled. She owned my first dance school, Hayden School of Ballet, until I was in my mid-teens when she sold it to one of the teachers. By the time I was a senior […]

October 7, 2013  |  Read Article

Dancing to Heal

An Interview with Creative Dance Psychologist Rachel Jordana Horodezky By Emmaly Wiederholt Bodies are powerful vessels of feeling; most dancers know this inherently, that movement can transform and heal. So when a friend of mine emailed me about her experience taking Creative Dance Psychology, a form of therapy that integrates dance, I was […]

September 23, 2013  |  Read Article

An Interview with Kara Davis: Her Perspective on Dance in Egypt

By Emmaly Wiederholt I’ve known Kara Davis as a San Francisco dance personality for several years now. I also knew that she’d gone to Israel and Egypt, had met her husband there, and had returned several times since, and I guessed she would have a unique perspective to share on […]

May 27, 2013  |  Read Article

An Interview with Adrenaline Dance’s Chris Jacobsen

By Emmaly Wiederholt Although I’ve experienced intense competition many times in my pursuit of dance, I have never formally competed in dance. So what’s competition dance all about? I sat down with Chris Jacobsen, a teacher, choreographer and judge at Adrenaline Dance, a national convention that includes workshops and competitions, […]

May 9, 2013  |  Read Article