Exploring the Identity of Professional Dancer

KELVIN VU is a freelance dancer in Tel Aviv and former dancer in the Batsheva Youth Ensemble. With experience both dancing in a full-time company and doing project-based work, he has a wide lens on what professionalism in dance can be. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what […]

February 22, 2018  |  Read Article

Professional is Awake

HOLLY MAIZ is a dancer, mover, dance/movement therapist and improviser in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who practices dance in a deep, integrative way that informs her understanding of professionalism. Her responses below are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a professional dancer. To read other perspectives […]

February 19, 2018  |  Read Article

The Credibility and Accessibility of Professional Dance

LIZ DURAN BOUBION is the artistic director of Piñata Dance Collective and co-director of ¡FLACC! Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Here, she reflects on the dance ecosystem and its multiple biases when it comes to professional dance. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means […]

February 15, 2018  |  Read Article

Assessing the Contexts of Professionalism

LORIEN HOUSE is a dancer-turned-lawyer currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She shares the sense of insecurity she experienced pursuing dance professionally in comparison with her later career, and the fraught questions of validation and self-worth it accompanied. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means […]

February 12, 2018  |  Read Article

The Many Meanings of ‘Professional’

CHRISTIAN BURNS – a dancer, teacher and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area and founder of burnsWORK – muses on what professionalism means, the permutability of definitions, and how it varies dancer to dancer. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a […]

February 8, 2018  |  Read Article