Dancecast Meets Stance on Dance

Stance on Dance is trying something new: podcasts! Silva Laukkanen recently launched a dance podcast series called Dancecast, which explores dance in non-traditional contexts. Emmaly Wiederholt (Stance on Dance’s fair editor) reached out to Silva to ask if she’d like to share Dancecast on Stance on Dance. To Emmaly’s delight, Silva said […]

November 17, 2016  |  Read Article

Dancing From San Francisco to Amsterdam

Gretchen Garnett is a dance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Previously, she lived and worked in San Francisco on a project-to-project basis for different choreographers and companies, as well as ran her own company, Gretchen Garnett & Dancers. She shares her observations on the different dance cultures of the two […]

November 14, 2016  |  Read Article

Just Put It into Movement: An Interview with Tracey Durbin

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Out on Sauvie’s Island is a llama who loves Tracey Durbin. The llama loves her because Tracey takes care of him, but also because of who Tracey is – a whirlwind confluence of dancer, choreographer, teacher animal caretaker, interior decorator and outdoor enthusiast. […]

November 10, 2016  |  Read Article

Communicating More Than Movement: An Interview with Emery Blackwell

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Most of us have a narrow definition of what it means to have a disability; it’s a label often imposed from the outside in. Emery has cerebral palsy and, though he is commonly labeled “disabled,” I have never met a dancer with a […]

November 7, 2016  |  Read Article

Another Soapbox on Dance, Success and Expression

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPH BY GREGORY BARTNING Uh oh. I feel a soapbox coming on! Bear with me. Yes, this is going to be about the Dancing Over 50 Project and, yes, I am going to get a little impassioned and over the top. Tomorrow I am attending the Yerba […]

November 4, 2016  |  Read Article