Find a Way to make it Happen: An Interview with Bonnie Lewkowicz

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Bonnie’s chest concaved  and then opened. Her head tilted back and her arms circled behind her. Piano music played in the background, accentuated by the soft sound of the wheels from her chair on the polished wood floor. She pulled herself forward and […]

October 17, 2013  |  Read Article

How Things Fell into Place: An Interview with Frank Shawl

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Sunlight streamed through the windows of the upstairs studio in Berkeley’s Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the school Frank Shawl co-founded in 1958 with Victor Anderson. Whether onstage, in a classroom, or simply in conversation, Frank had an electric energy; he seemed at times to […]

October 10, 2013  |  Read Article