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

Celebrating the Body

An Interview with Jody Oberfelder BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY PAULA COURT Jody Oberfelder is a dancer and choreographer in New York City. Her upcoming work, Madame Ovary, is the final installation of a seven-year body-centric multimedia exploration. Madame Ovary examines the role biology and anatomy play in defining identity […]

April 29, 2019  |  Read Article