Surprise!

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY RACHELLE WOODS; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN try please only try   penetrate eyes patterns   support transformation unity   submit to a magic man   be full the sacred fool   follow impulse cultivate energy   allow no judgment liberate […]

April 6, 2015  |  Read Article

Sand Dance

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY AND ARTWORK BY HADLEY NUNES; PHOTO BY VINCENT RICAFORT Let’s see, where did I leave off? It was the hearing, well that and a whole host of issues. I found Merwin. He saved me. The poem I memorized is as follows: […]

April 2, 2015  |  Read Article

A Toast! To Dance!

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT A Toast! To our first pink slippers, worn out more than grown out. To our first taste of performance. To our first taste of obsession. To our first acceptance and first rejection.   A Toast! To dripping sweat turned dried sweat and to dripping tears turned dried […]

March 30, 2015  |  Read Article

Here it Comes, There it Goes

BY MALINDA LAVELLE I am plagued by the phrase “I don’t know.” In a world where any given piece of advice has a separate and equally valid piece of counter advice, I find the more questions I ask, the fewer answers I have and the more decisions I hesitate to […]

March 26, 2015  |  Read Article

I Wanted More

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 JOY PRENDERGAST Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Salt Lake City 2005 I was 17, in […]

March 19, 2015  |  Read Article