Collaboration, Collective Art Practice, and When To Go it Alone

By Katharine Hawthorne   Dance making is an inherently collective and collaborative art practice.  Our professional structures focus on supporting dance companies; our training is group oriented, placing students into classes based on age and ability.  Despite the implicit collectivism in the performing arts, our landscape promotes individual artistic voices […]

May 23, 2013  |  Read Article

Dance Belt Couture

BY MAGGIE STACK AND EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Stance On Dance has revolutionized what it means to wear a dance belt. Gone are the days of boring skin-colored belts; wearing a dance belt has become a mode of expression. Feel like donning fur or going for the hipster look? These sorts of questions […]

May 20, 2013  |  Read Article

Just Dance

By Emmaly Wiederholt   Nike has made a fortune off of the slogan “Just Do It.” Some things make so much sense to “just do.” Just do your taxes. Just go to work. Just pay your bills. Does this totalism extend to dance? What does it mean to just dance? I […]

May 16, 2013  |  Read Article

Thrown

Poem by Madelyn Biven; Painting by Julia Cost Cross lines of a highway makes romance bleed, our feet become moonlight crimson echo of the eros between sand and heat (something fine like crushed sun as if the sun could become gold dust). I became a dove and dove into your […]

May 13, 2013  |  Read Article

An Interview with Adrenaline Dance’s Chris Jacobsen

By Emmaly Wiederholt Although I’ve experienced intense competition many times in my pursuit of dance, I have never formally competed in dance. So what’s competition dance all about? I sat down with Chris Jacobsen, a teacher, choreographer and judge at Adrenaline Dance, a national convention that includes workshops and competitions, […]

May 9, 2013  |  Read Article