Where Modern and Contemporary Meet

An Interview with Sandra Kaufmann BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Sandra Kaufmann performed in the Martha Graham Dance Company before serving as the founding director of the dance program at Loyola University. As an educator and practitioner, she shares her perspective on contemporary dance and where the form is headed. This interview […]

November 28, 2016  |  Read Article

Dancecast Meets Stance on Dance

Stance on Dance is trying something new: podcasts! Silva Laukkanen recently launched a dance podcast series called Dancecast, which explores dance in non-traditional contexts. Emmaly Wiederholt (Stance on Dance’s fair editor) reached out to Silva to ask if she’d like to share Dancecast on Stance on Dance. To Emmaly’s delight, Silva said […]

November 17, 2016  |  Read Article

Dancing From San Francisco to Amsterdam

Gretchen Garnett is a dance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Previously, she lived and worked in San Francisco on a project-to-project basis for different choreographers and companies, as well as ran her own company, Gretchen Garnett & Dancers. She shares her observations on the different dance cultures of the two […]

November 14, 2016  |  Read Article

Just Put It into Movement: An Interview with Tracey Durbin

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Out on Sauvie’s Island is a llama who loves Tracey Durbin. The llama loves her because Tracey takes care of him, but also because of who Tracey is – a whirlwind confluence of dancer, choreographer, teacher animal caretaker, interior decorator and outdoor enthusiast. […]

November 10, 2016  |  Read Article

Communicating More Than Movement: An Interview with Emery Blackwell

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Most of us have a narrow definition of what it means to have a disability; it’s a label often imposed from the outside in. Emery has cerebral palsy and, though he is commonly labeled “disabled,” I have never met a dancer with a […]

November 7, 2016  |  Read Article