Sand Dance

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY AND ARTWORK BY HADLEY NUNES; PHOTO BY VINCENT RICAFORT Let’s see, where did I leave off? It was the hearing, well that and a whole host of issues. I found Merwin. He saved me. The poem I memorized is as follows: […]

April 2, 2015  |  Read Article

A Toast! To Dance!

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT A Toast! To our first pink slippers, worn out more than grown out. To our first taste of performance. To our first taste of obsession. To our first acceptance and first rejection.   A Toast! To dripping sweat turned dried sweat and to dripping tears turned dried […]

March 30, 2015  |  Read Article

Here it Comes, There it Goes

BY MALINDA LAVELLE I am plagued by the phrase “I don’t know.” In a world where any given piece of advice has a separate and equally valid piece of counter advice, I find the more questions I ask, the fewer answers I have and the more decisions I hesitate to […]

March 26, 2015  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Classic Dancer Hairdos

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAGGIE STACK If you’ve been around the dance world, you may have started to notice the same hairstyles once or twice… or hundreds of times. The next time you scrounge together your paltry savings to get an overpriced haircut, don’t go trying something new. Stick […]

March 23, 2015  |  Read Article

I Wanted More

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY JOY PRENDERGAST Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Salt Lake City 2005 I was 17, in […]

March 19, 2015  |  Read Article