Conversations, Processes and Insistences

An Interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist who works in performance and is based in northern Ontario, Canada. She has exhibited in museums, videos and installations in Canada and abroad. Her work centers Indigenous knowledge production in and through orality, conversation and embodied practices, including dance. […]

January 3, 2019  |  Read Article

Why Choose?

An Interview with Non-Binary Choreographer Syniva Whitney Syniva Whitney is an experimental choreographer and interdisciplinary performance artist. They make work inspired by their non-binary transgender and black multiracial identity. Embodiment practices, dance improvisation and sculptural choreographic techniques are a part of their method. Gender Tender is the name Syniva gave to their […]

July 30, 2018  |  Read Article

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