Living Up to the Hype

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT One year ago, my book, “Beauty is Experience: Dancing 50 and Beyond,” finally, after four years of hard work, patience, many lessons, and a few tears, came out! Hooray! The photographer with whom I collaborated – Gregory Bartning – and I printed a first edition of 500 […]

June 25, 2018  |  Read Article

Experimentation and Inclusivity

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Eric Kupers, a director, choreographer and performer in the Bay Area. He is the co-director of Dandelion Dancetheater and director of Bandelion (the interdisciplinary ensemble within the company). Eric discusses his experimental approach to dance-making, the creative significance of […]

June 21, 2018  |  Read Article

Embodiment as a Feminist Practice

BY MADISON PAGE “The body uses its skin and deeper fascia and flesh to record all that goes on around it.  Like the Rosetta Stone, for those who know how to read it, the body is a living record of life given, life taken, life hoped for, life healed.”  –Clarissa […]

June 18, 2018  |  Read Article

Creating a More Inclusive World

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Marisa Hamamoto, founder and director of Infinite Flow, the first inclusive ballroom dance company in the US. Marisa shares her myriad experiences with inclusion and why it became such an important concept for her, her difficult history pursuing dance […]

June 14, 2018  |  Read Article

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