Happy 5th Birthday Stance on Dance
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE STACK One Saturday night five years ago, while rather inebriated with my roommates in the kitchen of our San Francisco flat, I had an idea. Just as there’s the publication The Onion that puts out fake news with the intention of illuminating farcical aspects…
Read articleJust Put It into Movement: An Interview with Tracey Durbin
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Out on Sauvie’s Island is a llama who loves Tracey Durbin. The llama loves her because Tracey takes care of him, but also because of who Tracey is – a whirlwind confluence of dancer, choreographer, teacher animal caretaker, interior decorator and outdoor enthusiast.…
Read articleCommunicating More Than Movement: An Interview with Emery Blackwell
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Most of us have a narrow definition of what it means to have a disability; it’s a label often imposed from the outside in. Emery has cerebral palsy and, though he is commonly labeled “disabled,” I have never met a dancer with a…
Read articleAnother Soapbox on Dance, Success and Expression
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPH BY GREGORY BARTNING Uh oh. I feel a soapbox coming on! Bear with me. Yes, this is going to be about the Dancing Over 50 Project and, yes, I am going to get a little impassioned and over the top. Tomorrow I am attending the Yerba…
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