Dancing Of, By and For the People

An Interview with Anne Bluethenthal BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Anne Bluethenthal is a dancer and choreographer in the Bay Area, and artistic director of ABD Productions and the Skywatchers Program, which brings residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District into partnership with professional artists to create multi-disciplinary, site-specific performance installations that amplify […]

December 11, 2017  |  Read Article

Art, Dart or Fart: Reprise!

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAGGIE STACK Five fair years ago, Stance on Dance was born, and one of its first posts was Art, Dart or Fart: An Appraisal of Dance through the Decades. To celebrate five furious, frivolous and facetious years of earnest interviews, enticing essays and ebullient jokes, […]

March 6, 2017  |  Read Article

Building an Artistic Community in Small-Town New Mexico

An Interview with Alessandra Ogren and Rebekah Tarín BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Alessandra Ogren and Rebekah Tarín are members of the collective that run the Peñasco Theatre. Located in Peñasco, New Mexico—a town of about 1,200 residents—the theater hosts classes, workshops, performances and residencies, creating a vibrant arts community where one […]

May 26, 2016  |  Read Article

Sand Dance

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY AND ARTWORK BY HADLEY NUNES; PHOTO BY VINCENT RICAFORT Let’s see, where did I leave off? It was the hearing, well that and a whole host of issues. I found Merwin. He saved me. The poem I memorized is as follows: […]

April 2, 2015  |  Read Article