The Kinetic Thrill: An Interview with Jim McGinn

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Jim’s mind might have questioned his validity as a dancer, but his body believed in his dance as truly as any good unconditional love. Dance never lies, and Jim’s dance told a truth about his ardent fascination with form and desire for movement. […]

September 13, 2017  |  Read Article

Still In It Together: An Interview with Nancy Davis and Jim Lane

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Nancy and Jim are partners in every sense of the word – dancing partners, business partners and life partners. Though their physical abilities in dance couldn’t be more different, their joint love of ballet is as strong as the tip of a pointe shoe; […]

September 11, 2017  |  Read Article

Part of the Protest: An Interview with Susan Banyas

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Up and away on her waterfront stage, Susan didn’t hesitate. She didn’t need to warm up. She didn’t need direction. She didn’t need an audience. She just needed her body and her internal inspiration, and away she flew, into the sliver of wild […]

September 7, 2017  |  Read Article

A Conversation About Everything in Relation to Everything

BY HANNAH KRAFCIK If you search the term “ecology” online, you will get “the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.” For a little over a week, several movers gathered together for Ecological Bodies: a week of somatic inquiry […]

August 31, 2017  |  Read Article

I Don’t Know How to Be a Dancer

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Earlier this month, I caught up with a friend who had recently produced a dance festival in Portland. I called to congratulate her and hear how it went, and to generally catch up. As our conversation lengthened, I found myself complaining to her that I feel like […]

August 24, 2017  |  Read Article