Dancing With and Without Adjectives

An Interview with Amelia Uzategui Bonilla BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Amelia Uzategui Bonilla is a dance artist and educator who regularly performs and teaches in the United States and Peru. In 2013, she founded the Río Danza Comunitaria in Peru, an organization that protects water rights through community performance and arts […]

January 21, 2019  |  Read Article

Bringing Black Stories to Life Through Ballet

An Interview with Jeremy McQueen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Jeremy McQueen is a dancer and choreographer in New York City, and the artistic director and founder of The Black Iris Project, a ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical ballets that celebrate diversity and Black history. By harnessing the […]

January 17, 2019  |  Read Article

Dance as a Poem, Poetry as Movement

An Interview with Tishani Doshi Tishani Doshi is a poet, writer and dancer living between two fishing villages in Tamil Nadu, India. In addition to pursuing her own literary career publishing six books of poetry and fiction, she toured in the work of Chandralekha, an Indian choreographer who fused Bharatanatyam […]

January 14, 2019  |  Read Article

San Francisco Movement Arts Festival: A Dance Feast

An Interview with Joan Lazarus BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY JANE HU The San Francisco Movement Arts Festival is a gathering of more than 250 dance artists who will come together to perform in Grace Cathedral on January 25th. Conceived and produced by Jim Tobin, a Bay Area dance advocate […]

January 10, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing Migrant Farmworkers’ Experiences

An Interview with Heryka Miranda BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Heryka Miranda is a dance artist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada who has been using approaches in expressive arts and dance movement therapy to work with migrant farmworker communities. Alongside Juan Luis Mendoza de la Cruz, she created The Sunflower Man using Indigenous […]

January 7, 2019  |  Read Article