Moving Beyond the Present Moment: An Interview with Virginia Matthews

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Virginia’s dance was rhythmic, a short phrase with balancés and chaînés. She ran to the other side and began again, her face open and lifted. She transitioned into an adagio that rolled through her spine and extended out into space. In particular, I […]

October 14, 2013  |  Read Article

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