Rendering Dance into Words

An Interview with Trina Mannino BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Trina Mannino is a dancer and dance writer in New York City who currently writes for The Dance Enthusiast and Dance Europe. In this interview, she shares her perspective on dance writing, the strengths and weaknesses of the field, and how it […]

March 16, 2017  |  Read Article

Happy 5th Birthday Stance on Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE STACK One Saturday night five years ago, while rather inebriated with my roommates in the kitchen of our San Francisco flat, I had an idea. Just as there’s the publication The Onion that puts out fake news with the intention of illuminating farcical aspects […]

March 13, 2017  |  Read Article

Finding Her Dance Swag Later in Life

An Interview with Anouschka Pearlman BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Anouschka Pearlman is a musician and journalist based out of Berlin, Germany, who took up hip-hop/urban dance in her late 40s. Now 52, she studies dance almost every day. She shares her story of coming to dance at a later age, especially […]

March 9, 2017  |  Read Article

Using Dance to Heal

An Interview with Marybeth Weinstock BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Marybeth Weinstock has a PhD in Clinical Psychology, a Master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy, and has been practicing since the 1980s. She currently lives in Pacific Grove, California where she runs a private practice, though she has lived and worked on both […]

March 2, 2017  |  Read Article

Revealing Hip Hop Dance’s Potential

An Interview with Kim Sims-Battiste BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Kim Sims-Battiste is the executive director of Culture Shock Oakland, a hip-hop dance organization dedicated to innovative performance, artist development and community enrichment. In this interview, Kim shares the power and potential hip hop has to foster community across many realms. ~~ […]

February 27, 2017  |  Read Article