The Shaping of a Piece

A Series of Interviews with Kim Epifano BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Kim Epifano is a Bay Area choreographer who was awarded a five-week residency through a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Genoa, Italy last Nov/Dec 2018. Her residency focused on developing an evening-length site-specific work, Rock e Malta, which investigates her Italian […]

January 31, 2019  |  Read Article

Intersections of Dance and Technology

An Interview with Catie Cuan Catie Cuan is a performer, choreographer, and technologist. She is a 2018 TED Resident, ThoughtWorks Arts Resident, and the Artist-in-Residence at the Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford […]

January 28, 2019  |  Read Article

The Chitrasena Dance Company Straddles Traditional and Contemporary

The Chitrasena Dance Company is Sri Lanka’s oldest dance company, and was established in the 1940s by Guru Chitrasena, who was instrumental in bringing Sri Lanka’s traditional dances from the village rituals to the modern stage. Today, the dance school and company continue to use traditional dance to create cutting-edge […]

January 24, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing With and Without Adjectives

An Interview with Amelia Uzategui Bonilla BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Amelia Uzategui Bonilla is a dance artist and educator who regularly performs and teaches in the United States and Peru. In 2013, she founded the Río Danza Comunitaria in Peru, an organization that protects water rights through community performance and arts […]

January 21, 2019  |  Read Article

Bringing Black Stories to Life Through Ballet

An Interview with Jeremy McQueen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Jeremy McQueen is a dancer and choreographer in New York City, and the artistic director and founder of The Black Iris Project, a ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical ballets that celebrate diversity and Black history. By harnessing the […]

January 17, 2019  |  Read Article