Assessing Opportunities

An Interview with Amy Seiwert BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Amy Seiwert is the artistic director and choreographer of Imagery, a contemporary ballet company based in California’s Bay Area. In addition to a long performing career, Amy has choreographed for ballet companies across the country. She shares her ideas on why men […]

September 12, 2016  |  Read Article

Who Gets to Have a Voice?

An Interview with Kathryn Roszak BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Kathryn Roszak is a ballet choreographer based in the Bay Area. This past year, she spearheaded the inaugural women ballet choreographers residency through the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She shared with me her perspective on the trials women in ballet face in […]

September 8, 2016  |  Read Article

Musings on Place and Space

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Leslie Satin is a New York-based choreographer and teacher at New York University who hails from the post-modern and downtown dance scene. She’s also a former Santa Fean who has returned to Santa Fe every summer for over 15 years. This summer, she created a piece, “Things […]

September 1, 2016  |  Read Article

Transitioning from Company to Retirement

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Samantha Klanac Campanile is retiring from dance at the age of 33 after 15 years in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. She reflects on what her career has meant to her, why she’s made the decision to retire, and how she’s grown over the years. ~~ Where were […]

August 29, 2016  |  Read Article

Building a Dance Festival in Lake Tahoe

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT After dancing professionally, Christin Hanna took her passion for ballet back to her hometown of Lake Tahoe in 2008 to start a dance school. In 2013, she launched the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival with her longtime friend, Constantine Baecher. The dance school, festival and a variety of […]

July 25, 2016  |  Read Article