Contact Improv’s Leviathan Studio

An Interview with Mark Young BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY SOREN WACKER Mark Young founded and built Leviathan, a dance studio dedicated to contact improvisation on Lasqueti Island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Home to about 400 year-round residents with a passenger-only ferry connecting the island to the […]

June 11, 2018  |  Read Article

A Flower in the Woods

Michael Doran and his recently deceased partner, Barry Lynn, founded Chalicestream, a dance center in the north woods of Wisconsin. Over the course of 40 years, they built a practice and following that continues to flower to this day. This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews […]

June 7, 2018  |  Read Article

A Flourishing Resilient Community

Desert Movement Arts, based in California’s Coachella Valley, is a collective rooted in improvisation, collaboration, ritual, explorations, collages and choreography. Its practices are inspired by the desert environment, postmodern dance, activist art, queer and feminist explorations, contact improvisation and site-specific choreography. Brittany Delany and Constance Clare-Newman, two of its four […]

June 4, 2018  |  Read Article

Outside Institutions

An Interview with Patricia Chen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Patricia Chen is a dancer, teacher and choreographer living in Bordeaux, France. After a career in New York, she found herself in France, slowly building her own dance practice, creating her company – Chendance – and building her studio in the countryside […]

May 31, 2018  |  Read Article

Up and Away in Flagstaff

An Interview with Abby Chan of Dark Sky Aerial Dark Sky Aerial is an aerial dance theater company based in Flagstaff, Arizona, comprised of dancers, acrobats, actors, and artists working together to construct interactive worlds into which they invite their audience. Abby Chan, one of Dark Sky Aerial’s founders, discusses the […]

May 28, 2018  |  Read Article