Hannah Sampson: “How We Respect and Treat Each Other”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT-MALDONADO Hannah Sampson is a dancer with Stopgap Dance Company in the UK. She completed her BTEC (Business and Technology Education Council) certificate in performing arts at Kingston College. She was an original member of the Stopgap Youth Dance Group before joining Stopgap Dance Company […]

May 27, 2019  |  Read Article

Marc Brew: “I Claim It: I Am A Disabled Man”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT-MALDONADO Marc Brew has worked for more than 20 years as a director, choreographer, dancer, and teacher with the Australian Ballet, PACT Ballet, Infinity Dance Theater, Candoco Dance Company, and AXIS Dance Company. Marc was associate director of Scottish Dance Theatre and Ballet Cymru, […]

May 23, 2019  |  Read Article

Kitty Lunn: “I’m Waiting for the World to Catch Up with Me”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT-MALDONADO Kitty Lunn is a ballet and modern dancer and teacher, a disability activist, and the founder of Infinity Dance Theater, a dance company founded in 1995 featuring dancers with and without disabilities. Based in New York City, Kitty is committed to bringing motion […]

May 20, 2019  |  Read Article

Exploring Afrofuturism through Dance and Art

An Interview with Layna Lewis and Kayla Banks BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOGRAPHS BY NINA LEWIS Viva La Free is a nonprofit in Portland, Oregon that creates art healing projects and public art to energize, enchant and heal communities, centering vulnerable and marginalized populations most impacted by systems of oppression and […]

May 9, 2019  |  Read Article

Modern Moves’ Approach to Studying Afro-Diasporic Dance

An Interview with Ananya Jahanara Kabir BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Ananya Jahanara Kabir was the project director and principal investigator of Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures, a five-year research project (June 2013 – May 2018), funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, and located at the Department […]

May 6, 2019  |  Read Article