Articles from the ‘Interviews’ collection

Dancers wearing white move around the stage lifting long tube-like structures.

Impacting Many

Valerie Green, a dance artist in Queens, New York City, and the director of Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, shares how her choreography, teaching, and studio all come together to contribute to her mission of multicultural understanding through dance and community building.

July 1, 2024  |  Read Article

Two dancers in wheelchairs face off on a black stage. One is wearing a silver dress and headdress, the other is wearing black with face makeup.

Propelling Wheelchair Dance Forward

Helen Mason, artistic director of Propel Dance, a new all-wheelchair dance company in the UK, describes her goal to create more job opportunities for dancers who use wheelchairs.

June 10, 2024  |  Read Article

A drummer in the background with two brightly dressed dancers in the foreground with one leg raised and both arms raised. They perform outside with skyscrapers in the background.

We Have Stories to Tell and Share

Jill Randall interviews Joti Singh of Duniya Dance and Drum Company on how she and her husband Bongo Sidibe amplify voices from the South Asian and African diasporas.

May 27, 2024  |  Read Article

Dancers wearing red and white regalia dance in front of a projection of a beaver.

Sovereignty in How We Express Ourselves

Margaret Grenier, director of Dancers of Damelahamid, an Indigenous dance company based in British Columbia, describes how the company is founded upon more than five decades of extensive song and dance revitalization.

April 22, 2024  |  Read Article