Dancing Of, By and For the People

An Interview with Anne Bluethenthal BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Anne Bluethenthal is a dancer and choreographer in the Bay Area, and artistic director of ABD Productions and the Skywatchers Program, which brings residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District into partnership with professional artists to create multi-disciplinary, site-specific performance installations that amplify […]

December 11, 2017  |  Read Article

Dancing Deaf

An Interview with Antoine Hunter BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Antoine Hunter is an African American Deaf dance artist based in the Bay Area. The founder and artistic director of Urban Jazz Dance, he has performed throughout the Bay Area and internationally. In 2013, he initiated the Bay Area International Deaf Dance […]

December 7, 2017  |  Read Article

Limitless in a Limited World: An Interview with Kathryn Roszak

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Kathryn’s staunch opinions and forthright realism about the schema of women in the dance world were strong and well-founded. She spoke with authority. But when she danced, what began to surface was a beautiful contradiction: she sharply questioned dance, and yet continued to […]

November 30, 2017  |  Read Article

Of Body and Mind: An Interview with Anandha Ray

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Anandha struck me as one of those people who practically bleeds passion. She moved like a serpent and spoke like a sage. Her awareness of her body and voice was like a fine-tuned instrument. In other words, every moment, every movement and every […]

November 27, 2017  |  Read Article

Moving Beyond Loss: An Interview with Ann DiFruscia

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Ann held sadness in her. It was a very real melancholy based on her life experience of loving and losing. But when she danced, something seemed to shed. It was the first time since meeting her I had truly seen her face smile […]

November 20, 2017  |  Read Article