We All Had Our Shoes On

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Amii LeGendre has taught dance to incarcerated men in New York through two programs: the Bard Prison Initiative and Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She is a wellness coordinator and dance professor at Bard College, and is currently performing a new dance/theatre solo called “I’m looking at you as if” about her experience teaching dance […]

December 10, 2016  |  Read Article

Questioning Neutrality and Colonization in Contemporary Dance

An Interview with Gerald Casel BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Gerald Casel is a Filipino-American choreographer, dancer and teacher whose work problematizes colonial narratives and invites cultural contemplation. In this interview, he reflects on the dominant voices in contemporary dance, who’s being heard and who’s not being heard, and why neutrality is […]

December 8, 2016  |  Read Article

Contemporary Dance through a Latin American Lens

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT This article is part of a series on contemporary dance and its extended implications. Liz Durán Boubion is a Bay Area dancer/choreographer, artistic director of the Piñata Dance Collective, and a second generation Mexican American. A few years ago, she went to Mexico for an artistic residency, and […]

December 5, 2016  |  Read Article

When She Moved Her Story

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Peggy Lamb and Barbara Abbate volunteer with incarcerated women through an organization called Truth be Told in detention facilities in Austin, TX. Peggy, a dancer and massage therapist, teaches creative movement through the Talk To Me – Movement series. Similarly, Barbara, an actress and public speaker, theatrically works with women through the […]

December 3, 2016  |  Read Article

The Many Contexts of Contemporary

An Interview with Lucy Vurusic Riner RE|dance group is a Chicago-based dance collective dedicated to the presentation of dance theatre works that examine the many facets of personal, intimate human relationships. Executive director and co-founder Lucy Vurusic Riner shares her thoughts on what “contemporary” means in the dance context. This interview […]

December 1, 2016  |  Read Article