Living Up to the Hype

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT One year ago, my book, “Beauty is Experience: Dancing 50 and Beyond,” finally, after four years of hard work, patience, many lessons, and a few tears, came out! Hooray! The photographer with whom I collaborated – Gregory Bartning – and I printed a first edition of 500 […]

June 25, 2018  |  Read Article

Contact Improv’s Leviathan Studio

An Interview with Mark Young BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY SOREN WACKER Mark Young founded and built Leviathan, a dance studio dedicated to contact improvisation on Lasqueti Island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Home to about 400 year-round residents with a passenger-only ferry connecting the island to the […]

June 11, 2018  |  Read Article

A Flower in the Woods

Michael Doran and his recently deceased partner, Barry Lynn, founded Chalicestream, a dance center in the north woods of Wisconsin. Over the course of 40 years, they built a practice and following that continues to flower to this day. This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews […]

June 7, 2018  |  Read Article

A Flourishing Resilient Community

Desert Movement Arts, based in California’s Coachella Valley, is a collective rooted in improvisation, collaboration, ritual, explorations, collages and choreography. Its practices are inspired by the desert environment, postmodern dance, activist art, queer and feminist explorations, contact improvisation and site-specific choreography. Brittany Delany and Constance Clare-Newman, two of its four […]

June 4, 2018  |  Read Article

Outside Institutions

An Interview with Patricia Chen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Patricia Chen is a dancer, teacher and choreographer living in Bordeaux, France. After a career in New York, she found herself in France, slowly building her own dance practice, creating her company – Chendance – and building her studio in the countryside […]

May 31, 2018  |  Read Article