Why did it affect me so deeply?

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Eiko and Koma’s Night Tide Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2012 It was […]

February 2, 2015  |  Read Article

Parker Murphy’s Story

BY LIZ BRENT This interview is part of Men Who Dance, an ongoing series that looks at the experiences of men in the field of dance. My name is Parker Murphy, and I’m 23 years old. Most recently, I’ve worked on projects with Gerald Casel Dance, Detour Dance, FACT/SF, 13th Floor Dance […]

January 29, 2015  |  Read Article

“I’m Still Here”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Over the past three months, I’ve had the honor of publishing 16 interviews with dancers over age 50 in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. What follows here is a particularly potent morsel from each interview: Click on photos to read full interview. Linda […]

January 26, 2015  |  Read Article

The Articulation of Expression: An Interview with Mark Haim

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING After I posed each question to Mark, he would pause, deep in thought. There was nothing unconsidered in his answers. After the interview, he very spontaneously sat down and began playing the piano. Music and dance rolled off Mark the way words didn’t. […]

January 22, 2015  |  Read Article

Digging Deep: An Interview with Rubina Carmona

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Rubina has Parkinson’s disease. On a street near her home, in the community in which she has come to be a leader, she moved through her flamenco poses with neither the strength nor the power she’d had in earlier days, but with a […]

January 19, 2015  |  Read Article