The Beauty of Difference

New York City based choreographer Tamar Rogoff discusses her dance history, her Body Scripting practice, and her upcoming performance "Drop Dead...Gorgeous," which explores body image and societal beauty standards.

September 8, 2025  |  Read Article

Celebrating the Body

An Interview with Jody Oberfelder BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY PAULA COURT Jody Oberfelder is a dancer and choreographer in New York City. Her upcoming work, Madame Ovary, is the final installation of a seven-year body-centric multimedia exploration. Madame Ovary examines the role biology and anatomy play in defining identity […]

April 29, 2019  |  Read Article

A Conversation About Everything in Relation to Everything

BY HANNAH KRAFCIK If you search the term “ecology” online, you will get “the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.” For a little over a week, several movers gathered together for Ecological Bodies: a week of somatic inquiry […]

August 31, 2017  |  Read Article

I Want to Give You the Lines

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY SEBASTIAN GRUBB; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I want to give you the lines from my palms, give you the twisting circuitry of my heart, the music of valves with blood rushing through, the flutter of eyelashes brushing skin;   give you […]

April 24, 2017  |  Read Article

Field Notes

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY JUSTINE HIGHSMITH; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT touch. ground. open.   floor duets they witness apart, foot by inch   humming body, still roaring teeth in bone-white jaw compression of a thousand, maybe two thousand more eons of skin on dirt place […]

April 20, 2017  |  Read Article