Seeking Body Liberation, Not Body Positivity

KT Kusmaul, founder and director of Body Home Fat Dance in Portland, OR, shares how she built a space for fat dancers to feel safe and welcome, and why she seeks body liberation, not body positivity.

November 8, 2021  |  Read Article

Let’s Take an Honest Look at Fat Phobia in Dance

It's time for the dance world to come to terms with its rampant fat-phobia and really mean it when we say, "All bodies can dance."

November 4, 2021  |  Read Article

Innovating Kathak Dance

Kathak dancer/choreographer Charlotte Moraga and sarod musician Alam Khan discuss their upcoming work "Mantram" and how they are innovating within the kathak tradition.

October 11, 2021  |  Read Article

Expanding Who Dances En Pointe

Roberto Vega Ortiz and Theresa Knudson of Ballet22, a ballet company in the Bay Area that seeks to break gender normative traditions, talk about how they hope to change representation in the ballet field by presenting mxn en pointe.

September 20, 2021  |  Read Article

Shifting Toward Models of Equity

Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero, co-directors of The Bridge Project in the Bay Area, talk about their programming and their distributed leadership model, as well as Hope's recent book reflecting on 10 years of The Bridge Project.

August 30, 2021  |  Read Article