Alito Alessi: Beyond “Us” versus “Them”

An Interview with Alito Alessi, Part Two BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Alito Alessi is the artistic director of DanceAbility® International and co-founder of DanceAbility®. He is internationally known as a pioneering teacher and choreographer in the fields of contact improvisation, dance and disability. This is part two of a two-part interview, […]

June 8, 2015  |  Read Article

DanceAbility: Beyond Islands of Isolation

An Interview with Alito Alessi, Part One BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Alito Alessi is the artistic director of DanceAbility® International and co-founder of DanceAbility®. He is internationally known as a pioneering teacher and choreographer in the fields of contact improvisation, dance and disability. This is part one of a two-part interview, […]

June 4, 2015  |  Read Article

All Bodies are Dancers

An Interview with Jane Hawley BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Jane Hawley is a professor of dance at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She developed the Movement Fundamentals curriculum. This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews with high level dance artists working in places not well known […]

May 25, 2015  |  Read Article

Vincent Lacoste’s Countryside Retreat

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Vincent Lacoste lives and works in the countryside of France in a studio performance place called Le Relais. This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews with high level dance artists working in places not well known for dance. Vincent Lacoste, Photo by Léo […]

May 21, 2015  |  Read Article

Building Dance on Maui

An Interview with Hallie Hunt Armato BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews with high level dance artists working in places not well known for dance. Where do you live and work? I live and work on the island of Maui, Hawaii. […]

May 18, 2015  |  Read Article