I Want to Give You the Lines

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY SEBASTIAN GRUBB; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I want to give you the lines from my palms, give you the twisting circuitry of my heart, the music of valves with blood rushing through, the flutter of eyelashes brushing skin;   give you […]

April 24, 2017  |  Read Article

The Man from Cleveland is Leaving

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT 10 years in this land with no Bros no Black humor no one watching your back   this is not a scramble at the market with a boom box back up band or an all […]

April 22, 2017  |  Read Article

Field Notes

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY JUSTINE HIGHSMITH; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT touch. ground. open.   floor duets they witness apart, foot by inch   humming body, still roaring teeth in bone-white jaw compression of a thousand, maybe two thousand more eons of skin on dirt place […]

April 20, 2017  |  Read Article

Is That What I Am Holding?

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CATHERINE MARIE DAVALOS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT My back has been watched, the hipbone hurting for six episodes. I keep finding places, new palettes of expression to nothing. I turn, a different person, older, tired. Is that what I am holding? […]

April 17, 2017  |  Read Article

Cracking the Surface of Possibility

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Mark Travis Rivera is a choreographer, writer, public speaker and advocate who lives in the world of intersectionality. Latino, gay, gender-non conforming and disabled, Mark’s life is a testament to how much agency a young person can have. In fact, the 26-year-old holds the distinction of being the youngest person to found […]

April 15, 2017  |  Read Article