Addressing Parkinson’s through Dance

AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LEVENTHAL Born from the idea that people with Parkinson’s can benefit from the specific techniques and methods used by dancers to guide their own bodies and minds, Dance for PD® strives to increase coordination, balance, flexibility and strength through music and movement for people with Parkinson’s […]

June 26, 2017  |  Read Article

Dancing through Death

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Liv Schaffer, a young dance artist living in the Bay Area. Liv lost both of her parents to cancer, and set out to process her experience of loss through dance. Her ongoing project, Deadication, incorporates dance and video, most […]

June 22, 2017  |  Read Article

Dance as Discourse in Palestine

An Interview with Samar King BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Samar King is an American Palestinian and the artistic director Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, a dance company based out of both Palestine and New York City. She shares her perceptions on living and creating dance in the midst of a politically disenfranchised […]

June 19, 2017  |  Read Article

Social Justice Through Dance

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Sandra Paola Lopez Ramirez, a Columbian-American dance artist who reaches a host of populations through her improvisational dance practice. Her work is characterized by the exploration of relationship, gender, race, identity, awareness, kinesthetic listening and touch. Driven by her […]

June 15, 2017  |  Read Article

Respecting Sexual Boundaries in Contact Improvisation

An Interview with Brooks Yardley ILLUSTRATIONS BY LIZ BRENT Brooks Yardley is a practitioner of contact improvisation in Canada who published the online zine “Respecting Boundaries/Coexisting Genders: Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv.” In this interview, Brooks shares why they felt it was important to create the zine, […]

June 12, 2017  |  Read Article