A Life in Dance Education

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Nancy Bain, who has spent her life working in dance education. She shares some of her most unique teaching experiences, including addressing war with students through dance at a public elementary school for the arts. Nancy also discusses why […]

September 28, 2017  |  Read Article

What Does the World Call Better? An Interview with Nancy Evans Doede

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Nancy was like a road. She was long and far-sighted, and had passed through many terrains. It was not only her story that was configured like a road, but her movement as well. “Let’s see,” she said to herself before she began to […]

September 25, 2017  |  Read Article

Desire and Willpower: An Interview with Deborah Wolf

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Deborah said she liked to wear socks while dancing. Conversely, watching her dance seemed as simple as watching her put on her socks – it happened with such ease and lack of pretension so as to almost seem prosaic. When a dance is akin […]

September 22, 2017  |  Read Article

A Living Tradition: Jayanthi Raman

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Not quite 50, our youngest dancer explained she knew few others, even in India, dancing this particular form of Indian classical dance at her age. As the sun rose above the trees behind her, the colorful whirl of Jayanthi’s dance grew like a […]

September 20, 2017  |  Read Article

I Trust Dance: An Interview with Josie Moseley

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING “Do you want me to dance?” Josie asked. But before she had reached the end of her sentence, she had literally jumped into a combination. She emoted, expressed, whirled and twirled in her long black swirling coat. One might describe her as regal […]

September 18, 2017  |  Read Article