The Chitrasena Dance Company Straddles Traditional and Contemporary

The Chitrasena Dance Company is Sri Lanka’s oldest dance company, and was established in the 1940s by Guru Chitrasena, who was instrumental in bringing Sri Lanka’s traditional dances from the village rituals to the modern stage. Today, the dance school and company continue to use traditional dance to create cutting-edge […]

January 24, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing With and Without Adjectives

An Interview with Amelia Uzategui Bonilla BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Amelia Uzategui Bonilla is a dance artist and educator who regularly performs and teaches in the United States and Peru. In 2013, she founded the Río Danza Comunitaria in Peru, an organization that protects water rights through community performance and arts […]

January 21, 2019  |  Read Article

Bringing Black Stories to Life Through Ballet

An Interview with Jeremy McQueen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Jeremy McQueen is a dancer and choreographer in New York City, and the artistic director and founder of The Black Iris Project, a ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical ballets that celebrate diversity and Black history. By harnessing the […]

January 17, 2019  |  Read Article

Dance as a Poem, Poetry as Movement

An Interview with Tishani Doshi Tishani Doshi is a poet, writer and dancer living between two fishing villages in Tamil Nadu, India. In addition to pursuing her own literary career publishing six books of poetry and fiction, she toured in the work of Chandralekha, an Indian choreographer who fused Bharatanatyam […]

January 14, 2019  |  Read Article

San Francisco Movement Arts Festival: A Dance Feast

An Interview with Joan Lazarus BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY JANE HU The San Francisco Movement Arts Festival is a gathering of more than 250 dance artists who will come together to perform in Grace Cathedral on January 25th. Conceived and produced by Jim Tobin, a Bay Area dance advocate […]

January 10, 2019  |  Read Article