The Strange Pull of What You Love

BY KARA DAVIS Editorial Note: Each August for the past six years, Stance on Dance has asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. My mother always jokes that […]

August 30, 2018  |  Read Article

Rethinking Dance Education

An Interview with Terry Goetz BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Terry Goetz is the director of the Creative Dance Center in Seattle. She took over from Anne Green Gilbert, who developed BrainDance and a brain-based approach to dance education. Terry shares how she came to value and support this approach, as well […]

August 16, 2018  |  Read Article

Appreciating the Passing: An Interview with Don Hewitt

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Don embodied the dance teacher archetype. He arrived early and prepared; he had given thought to what he wanted to say; he bestowed what he had to say with a measure of surety and kindness. He made me want to dance for him. […]

July 2, 2018  |  Read Article

Dancing Throughout Life with Ballet 4 Life

An Interview with Donna Schoenherr BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Donna Schoenherr is the founder and director of Ballet 4 Life and Move into Wellbeing® in London. In this interview, she discusses her belief that anyone can benefit from dance at any age and stage, and details how she makes dance – […]

May 21, 2018  |  Read Article

The Many Meanings of ‘Professional’

CHRISTIAN BURNS – a dancer, teacher and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area and founder of burnsWORK – muses on what professionalism means, the permutability of definitions, and how it varies dancer to dancer. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a […]

February 8, 2018  |  Read Article