Finding Room to Dance

An Introduction to the Where Dance Is Series BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I didn’t move to Santa Fe to dance, though I knew I wasn’t finished dancing. I didn’t know what I was going to find, but the last thing I expected to find was room. In […]

May 4, 2015  |  Read Article

Milk

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY MADELYN BIVEN; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I see a grey scarf and know nothing. Yellow-nosed nobodies bake bread on the sun. You strip tease hot details into batter and utter disaster, deaf diving like snow. We grew up watching ladybugs […]

April 30, 2015  |  Read Article

Circling from 10,000 Feet

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY KATIE FLOREZ; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN Circling from 10,000 feet I unfurl the oily cable Into a measured swirl beneath me. Montreal on a snowy Tuesday afternoon.   I push back my knit beanie Too hot from dancing, sliding down […]

April 27, 2015  |  Read Article

Tiny Deaths

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN In excavating remains of ancient cultures, archeologists never find any dance. Dying as it lives, dance doesn’t know how to sit around waiting to be found.   Tiny Death #1 We sit in the car, […]

April 20, 2015  |  Read Article

A Dance of Love… A Love of Dance

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHEL MEYER; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I’ll dance this dance of love this love I dance for you the audience is waiting, so I’ll share my story soon   The curtain begins to rise on a feature yet unknown anticipation grows […]

April 16, 2015  |  Read Article