Questions Worth Considering

By Julia Cost and Emmaly Wiederholt When we began our hike, the fog lay heavy and gray, barely breaking at the Berkeley hills we were climbing. By the end of our hike, the fog had receded beyond The City, leaving the Bay Area sunny and clear. This in many ways […]

August 25, 2012  |  Read Article

Remembering Lakes

By Madelyn Biven It’s beautiful chopped.   Your skin when we met was lettuce green, cabbage white.  Everything we ate, we became.  I always believed sun thirsted for your hazel, that’s why I lit candles close to you before day woke up, to see your hair drop into your mouth.  […]

August 23, 2012  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Undress Rehearsal

By Emmaly Wiederholt; Drawing by Maggie Stack Been nude in public lately? Looking for that perfect opportunity to display your bod for all to see? May I suggest being nude on stage? Let me ask you: when was the last time you saw performers undressing on stage? Wait, let me […]

August 20, 2012  |  Read Article

Photographer Gregory Bartning

“Dance is the language of movement. It is the visual communication and expression of our dreams, thoughts and perceptions.   As a still photographer, I constantly struggle with how to convey a sense of motion with a single image. This current project melds several images into one, in an effort to accurately portray […]

August 16, 2012  |  Read Article

From the Inside Out: Dancing (Quietly) in China

By Emily Withenbury The very first words I learned in Mandarin Chinese were “wu, liu, qi, ba.” This was December 2010 in a dance studio in Beijing, China. I learned these words so we could count our collaborating Chinese dancers in on the “5, 6, 7, 8.” Two weeks ago I took […]

August 13, 2012  |  Read Article