An Interview with Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne

By Emmaly Wiederholt, painting by Julia Cost I witnessed hula for the first time a few years back at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The lush sensual movements paired with the evident deep sense of purpose the dancers carried themselves with made it obvious to me that hula was […]

February 25, 2013  |  Read Article

Weirdos Weirdos Everywhere

By Emmaly Wiederholt I’m a bit of a mess. Sometimes I’m goofy and clown around. Other times I want to dive into a philosophical treatise on art. Then someone says something that makes me want to cry, and soon I’m laughing at myself, crying. I’m simultaneously needy, the life of […]

February 11, 2013  |  Read Article

Facing Space

By Angela Mazziotta Space Dunce-ity Lately, it’s Space that’s been pacing along the rivery flow of my thought bubble galaxies. I am a platinum AIRhead, an aureate SPACE cadet, but don’t call me blonde. Maybe I’ve always been a bit sensitive to space and how I fit into its many […]

February 7, 2013  |  Read Article

An Introduction to Pueblo Dance

By Emmaly Wiederholt A couple of years ago, while lounging around my parents’ house in New Mexico over Christmas, I decided I wanted to go see some Pueblo dances. What is a Pueblo dance? The Pueblo people are Native Americans from the Southwestern United States. There are twenty-one different Pueblo […]

January 24, 2013  |  Read Article

An Interview with Anthony Rizzi

Of the many interviews I’ve conducted, former Forsythe dancer Anthony (Tony) Rizzi is perhaps one of my favorites thus far. I was asked to interview him for the January/February 2013 publication of In Dance. Tony and I talked for a good half hour, resulting in over 3000 words after I […]

January 21, 2013  |  Read Article