Respecting Sexual Boundaries in Contact Improvisation

An Interview with Brooks Yardley ILLUSTRATIONS BY LIZ BRENT Brooks Yardley is a practitioner of contact improvisation in Canada who published the online zine “Respecting Boundaries/Coexisting Genders: Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv.” In this interview, Brooks shares why they felt it was important to create the zine, […]

June 12, 2017  |  Read Article

30 Years of Presenting World Class Flamenco

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Eva Encinias Sandoval is the founder and artistic director of the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque, an annual flamenco festival that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now in its 30th year, Eva waxes about how the art form has evolved over the past three decades, and […]

June 5, 2017  |  Read Article

The Miracle in the Garage

BY CATHY INTEMANN A couple weeks ago, 73 boxes on a large pallet were delivered to my garage. The pallet was wrapped in shrink wrap and piled nine-by-nine boxes wide and seven levels high with the extra boxes stacked on top. The pallet leaned slightly. They were delivered by a […]

June 1, 2017  |  Read Article

Defining Indigenous Contemporary Dance, One Step at a Time

An Interview with Rulan Tangen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Rulan Tangen is the artistic director and founder of Dancing Earth, an indigenous intertribal dance ensemble based out of New Mexico. Her work values movement as an expression of indigenous worldview, including the honoring of matriarchal leadership, dance as functional ritual for […]

May 22, 2017  |  Read Article

Keeping Ballet Relevant through Words

The Ballet Bag was founded in 2009 by two ballet enthusiasts, Linda and Emilia, who were both living in the United Kingdom at the time. Their goal has been to demonstrate that ballet is not stuffy, old-fashioned or inaccessible by creating relevant, fresh and topical coverage. Linda and Emilia share […]

April 1, 2017  |  Read Article