Articles tagged ‘Chicana’

Liz sits in the sand wearing a blue outfit with her skin painted blue. A desert scene is behind her.

Radical Aesthetics and the Winds of Change

Liz Duran Boubion, director/choreographer of Piñata Dance Collective and director of the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers in the Bay Area, meditates on how a residency in the Sonoran desert influenced her thoughts on death and political change.

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…

Is That What I Am Holding?

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CATHERINE MARIE DAVALOS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT My back has been watched, the hipbone hurting for six…