Ballez: Redefining Ballet

An Interview with Katy Pyle BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Katy Pyle is the founder, director and choreographer of Ballez, a dance company in New York City that celebrates lesbian, queer and transgender communities and histories through ballet classes, as well as by reimagining classical ballets through an LGBTQ lens. Katy discusses […]

November 6, 2017  |  Read Article

Rethinking Disability through Enabling Theatre

An Interview with Susan Quick BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Susan Quick was first a dancer and later an actress before sustaining a head injury that changed her life. The native of Hebden Bridge, England built upon Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to create Enabling Theatre, a way of using theater […]

November 2, 2017  |  Read Article

Writing the Dance

An Interview with Cheryl Pallant BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Cheryl Pallant is a dancer, writer and professor in Richmond, Virginia. She has published several books of poetry and nonfiction, as well as many articles. She discusses the convergence of dancing and writing in her life, and how one feeds the other. […]

October 26, 2017  |  Read Article

Where American and Tunisian Dance Meet

An Interview with Emily Schoen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Emily Schoen is a dancer and choreographer in New York City, and the artistic director of Schoen Movement Company. This October, she orchestrated a residency in Tunis, Tunisia, teaching modern dance classes and setting a piece on members of both her own […]

October 23, 2017  |  Read Article

Between Cultures

An Interview with Ivonne Batanero BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Ivonne Batanero is a dancer and choreographer in Miami, Florida. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Ivonne reflects on her experience going back to her native Peru to perform and teach as an American, and […]

October 16, 2017  |  Read Article