Experiencing the Body as Physical Resource

An Interview with Olive Bieringa BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Olive Bieringa is the founder and a collaborator alongside Otto Ramstad of BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT, which creates dance in urban, domestic, wild, and social landscapes, and whose work is rooted in experimental dance, somatic and socially engaged practices. Olive is a choreographer, director, […]

June 13, 2019  |  Read Article

The Language of the Body is the Oldest Language

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Sally Davison, a dancer, choreographer, and master DanceAbility teacher in the UK and Finland. Sally discusses the strength of DanceAbility as valuing participant-led knowledge and making inclusion possible. She asserts that DanceAbility is not just about disability, but about […]

May 2, 2019  |  Read Article

Being in Body in Nature on Earth

An Interview with Ahjo Ahjo is a neuro different, gender queer, pansexual, elemental creature, residing for more than 25 years on Tewa land at O’gha Po’oge—White Shell Water Place—now called Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ahjo calls themselves a SomaticEarth Artist and uses all mediums to express both the tension and […]

November 15, 2018  |  Read Article

Capturing Movement, Creating an Image

An Interview with Gregory Bartning BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Gregory Bartning is a photographer who splits his time between Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA. Alongside his commercial and art projects, he also collaborated with me on the book, Beauty is Experience: Dancing 50 and Beyond. I […]

November 5, 2018  |  Read Article

My Body’s Notebook

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CONSUELO GONZALEZ; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT A prayer is rolling in like fog on the smooth wood floor, waiting to be kicked up by our heels and toes and stirred. A prayer is our energy focused, dancing a trio, moving from […]

April 9, 2018  |  Read Article