Rudolf The Ballet Dancer

LYRICS AND VIDEO BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE STACK; SONG AND MUSIC PERFORMED BY TARA KHOZEIN Merry Christmas! To the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” we bring you “Rudolf the Ballet Dancer!” If video doesn’t load, click here to watch and giggle! You’ve heard legend of Balanchine, Misha […]

December 25, 2017  |  Read Article

Limitless in a Limited World: An Interview with Kathryn Roszak

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Kathryn’s staunch opinions and forthright realism about the schema of women in the dance world were strong and well-founded. She spoke with authority. But when she danced, what began to surface was a beautiful contradiction: she sharply questioned dance, and yet continued to […]

November 30, 2017  |  Read Article

Ballez: Redefining Ballet

An Interview with Katy Pyle BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Katy Pyle is the founder, director and choreographer of Ballez, a dance company in New York City that celebrates lesbian, queer and transgender communities and histories through ballet classes, as well as by reimagining classical ballets through an LGBTQ lens. Katy discusses […]

November 6, 2017  |  Read Article

Building Cultural Bridges

An Interview with Michelle Manzanales BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Michelle Manzanales is a choreographer and dance educator in New York City. Before being named director of the Ballet Hispánico School of Dance in December 2016, she served as rehearsal director and artistic associate of the main company of Ballet Hispánico since 2010. As […]

October 12, 2017  |  Read Article

A Voice of Social Activism

An Interview with Cathy Davalos BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Cathy Davalos is a Chicana choreographer and professor of dance at Saint Mary’s College of California in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, she reflects on why her identity as […]

October 9, 2017  |  Read Article