How Things Fell into Place: An Interview with Frank Shawl

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Sunlight streamed through the windows of the upstairs studio in Berkeley’s Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the school Frank Shawl co-founded in 1958 with Victor Anderson. Whether onstage, in a classroom, or simply in conversation, Frank had an electric energy; he seemed at times to […]

October 10, 2013  |  Read Article

In It for the Long Run: A Series of Interviews and Photographs with Dancers over Fifty

By Emmaly Wiederholt; Photographs by Gregory Bartning Mrs. Lucy Hayden was an old woman whose body constantly trembled. She owned my first dance school, Hayden School of Ballet, until I was in my mid-teens when she sold it to one of the teachers. By the time I was a senior […]

October 7, 2013  |  Read Article

My Experience with Creative Dance Therapy

By Jessa Freeman I recently had the honor of exploring Creative Dance Psychology with my friend Rachel Jordana. She is a doctor in Psychology and a dance enthusiast who found the joy of movement while finishing her studies.  If it hadn’t been for her joy and fun peer pressure I […]

September 26, 2013  |  Read Article

Dancing to Heal

An Interview with Creative Dance Psychologist Rachel Jordana Horodezky By Emmaly Wiederholt Bodies are powerful vessels of feeling; most dancers know this inherently, that movement can transform and heal. So when a friend of mine emailed me about her experience taking Creative Dance Psychology, a form of therapy that integrates dance, I was […]

September 23, 2013  |  Read Article

Part Two: Where Are You With Dance Right Now?

Eleven pre-professional teenage dancers were recently asked, “Where are you with dance right now?” This is the second half of their responses. They will be posed this question once a year for as long as they choose to respond, hopefully creating a chronicle of their growth through those pivotal years when young dancers […]

September 16, 2013  |  Read Article