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Director and editor Emmaly Wiederholt is a dance artist and arts journalist based in Albuquerque, NM. She founded Stance on Dance in 2012. Emmaly earned her MA in Arts Journalism from the University of Southern California and her BFA in Ballet and BS in Political Science from the University of Utah. She further trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and performed extensively around the Bay Area. Her first book, Beauty is Experience: Dancing 50 and Beyond, was published in 2017, and her second book, Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, was published in 2022. Emmaly is also a master DanceAbility instructor and facilitates movement groups at the UNM Hospital adult psychiatric ward, as well as is a founding member of the dance advocacy nonprofit ABQ Dance Connect. She continues to perform throughout the Southwest.

Emmaly Wiederholt staring upward with arms around face

Photo by Allen Winston

Contributors include:

Snowflake Arizmendi-Calvert

Gregory Bartning

Liz Duran Boubion

Liz Brent-Maldonado

Michelle Chaviano

Bradford Chin

Shebana Coelho

breana connor

Lauren Coons

Julia Cost

Brittany Delany

Sophia Diehl

Bonnie Eissner

Katie Flashner

Micaela Gardner

Sarah Groth

Cherie Hill

Lorie House

Silva Laukkanen

Mary Elizabeth Lenahan

Shannon Leypoldt

Erin Malley

Julianna Massa

Aiano Nakagawa

Jessie Nowak

Kevin O’Connor

Bhumi B Patel

Stephanie Potreck

Jill Randall

Kathryn Roszak

Donna Schoenherr

Maggie Stack

Camille Taft

Mary Trunk

Diana Turner-Forte

Ana Vrbaski

Nikhita Winkler

Erica Pisarchuk Wilson

Rebecca Zeh

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Our board:

Snowflake Arizmendi-Calvert

Cathy Intemann

Alana Isiguen

Courtney King

Malinda LaVelle

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