Image Description: A photo of Vanessa on stage with her walker named Pluto. She is wearing all black and has a white mesh head piece that looks like an abstract Venus fly trap. Her walker has a costume on that is a white fabric looped around the purple metal parts of her walker. In the background, there are six dancers in a wide stance leaning back.

The Urgency of Accessibility in Higher Education Dance Training

Bradford Chin, a disabled dance artist, DEIJ/accessibility consultant, and audio describer for dance based in Chicago and San Francisco, argues why higher education needs to make dance training more accessible for students with disabilities.

May 6, 2024 | Read Article

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strikethrough #1

Dancer, poet, and filmmaker Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş poem "strikethrough #1" is part of a project using erasure poetry to create choreographic scores.

May 2, 2024 | Read Article

A backlit blurry image of a dancer with her hair moving with her as she twirls.

Three Thoughts on Moving

Dance artist Erica Pisarchuk Wilson explores position, weight, and sound through poetry.

April 29, 2024 | Read Article

Dancers wearing red and white regalia dance in front of a projection of a beaver.

Sovereignty in How We Express Ourselves

Margaret Grenier, director of Dancers of Damelahamid, an Indigenous dance company based in British Columbia, describes how the company is founded upon more than five decades of extensive song and dance revitalization.

April 22, 2024 | Read Article

Sekou McMiller partners Desiree Godsell onstage in front of a piano.

Making Afro Latin Jazz Dance ‘Shine’ With a Reunion of Styles

Bonnie Eissner profiles Afro Latin jazz dancer and choreographer Sekou McMiller about his work pushing partnered Latin social dances forward by looking to their roots in West African dance, African American jazz, and Caribbean and American dance cultures.

April 15, 2024 | Read Article