Rethinking Dance and Disability

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Mary Verdi-Fletcher shares her history founding and directing Dancing Wheels, a company and school based out of Cleveland, OH that has been uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities since 1980. Mary was one of the first professional wheelchair dancers […]

April 8, 2017  |  Read Article

Duende

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY MADISON KREKEL; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Only in service to you Can I feel the most free My brain powers down I do not move from intellect I can taste everything But I do not try to define it My love […]

April 6, 2017  |  Read Article

Secrets

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY NATALIE DERYN JOHNSON; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Tell me your secrets, but don’t use your words. Melt your flesh into mine and resonate in the reverb. In your connective tissue lives the fossils of your soul. Unearth the crystallized stories. Sew […]

April 3, 2017  |  Read Article

Keeping Ballet Relevant through Words

The Ballet Bag was founded in 2009 by two ballet enthusiasts, Linda and Emilia, who were both living in the United Kingdom at the time. Their goal has been to demonstrate that ballet is not stuffy, old-fashioned or inaccessible by creating relevant, fresh and topical coverage. Linda and Emilia share […]

April 1, 2017  |  Read Article

Bringing More People into the Dialogue

An Interview with Ellen Chenoweth BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Ellen Chenoweth is the executive director of thINKingDANCE, an online dance publication based in Philadelphia. As someone who doesn’t personally identify with the label “dancer,” Ellen brings a unique perspective to dance journalism and how the field might expand dialogue. ~~ How […]

March 30, 2017  |  Read Article