An illustration of six orange flowers and an orange dancer holding onto a flower stem and leaning back.

Communion with the Wild Natural Divine

Albuquerque-based dancer, artist, and magick maker Romy Keegan shares her dance-inspired bursts of artwork, like bright flowers popping up in springtime.

June 30, 2025 | Read Article

Irlanda does a backbend on a pole. She is wearing a black bikini and gold Pleaser heels, and the background is blue.

Empowered by Pole Arts

Julianna Massa profiles her pole dance teacher Irlanda, a dancer, choreographer, stripper, scholar, archivist, and the co-owner of Black Widow Pole Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on her perspective of her own artistry as a dancer and the future of pole dance as a field.

December 18, 2023 | Read Article

Bianca kneels on the floor under a ballet barre to touch a student's foot.

Making Ballet Accessible to Adult Learners

Bianca Starr, owner of Bianca Lily Ballet in Albuquerque, NM, shares how she creates an inviting and accessible environment for adults who are beginning ballet.

June 26, 2023 | Read Article

Two dancers dance in silhouette against a sunset in the desert wearing straw hats.

Reclaiming Time and Place

Nikesha Breeze, Miles Tokunow, and MK discuss their piece "Stages of Tectonic Blackness," performed in the Sandia Mountains outside of Albuquerque and in Blackdom, NM, which posits that a resting Black body on the earth is a radical act.

January 17, 2022 | Read Article

Still on the Planet Practicing My Art

After recovering from what was likely coronavirus, Washington DC-based sand dancer Donne Lewis describes how her goals of "making it" as a dancer have shifted.

October 12, 2020 | Read Article