Choreography for An Arm and A Half

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN; PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM ISOM In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Julie Crothers, a freelance dancer and emerging choreographer in the Bay Area. After dancing with AXIS Dance Company for three years, Julie began exploring her own choreographic voice. She describes the impetus of her piece […]

October 15, 2018  |  Read Article

Promoting Boundaries and Pushing for Equality

An Interview with Kathleen Rea BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Kathleen Rea is a dancer, improviser, choreographer and activist in Toronto, Canada. In 2000, she formed REAson d’etre dance productions, a dance company that promotes contact dance improvisation. Through her company, she has produced the Wednesday Dance Jam, the Contact Dance International Film […]

October 11, 2018  |  Read Article

On Native-ness, Decolonization, and Iterative Dance-Making

An Interview with Rosy Simas BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Rosy Simas is a Native contemporary choreographer from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Her new work, Weave, weaves through multiple cities and iterations. Here, she discusses white voyeurism of Native cultures, decolonization, and her process of iterative dance-making. This interview took place […]

October 8, 2018  |  Read Article

Unearthing the Feminine Spirit Via Old and Young Bones

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Sarah Bush is a choreographer in the Bay Area. Her upcoming piece, Spirit & Bones, features an intergenerational cast of 15 dancers ranging in age from 23 to 71. The production highlights female resilience in times of darkness, the tenacity of women, and the strength generated by […]

October 4, 2018  |  Read Article

Supporting Individual Expression

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Gretchen Pick, executive director of Young Dance in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region. Young Dance offers youth classes and performance opportunities, and started to include dance classes for children and adults with disabilities in 2010 after realizing nothing else was being […]

October 1, 2018  |  Read Article