One shimmering human is held aloft by six others, legs straight and sharp, arm wearily reaching toward light, all wearing sequin costumes of gold, silver, black, blue, and purple.

Democratizing Dance

Pioneer Winter, choreographer and artistic director of Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational, queer, and physically integrated company based in Miami, Florida, shares his belief that dance should not be exclusionary.

August 8, 2022  |  Read Article

Etienne teaches a Folklife workshop

Sown from Culture, Flourishing in Community

Etienne Cakpo, a dance artist originally from Benin and the director of Gansango Music and Dance Company in Seattle, shares how his classes at the University of Washington have positively affected many of his students and how there is abundant cultural value in learning the dances of Africa.

February 28, 2022  |  Read Article

Expanding Experience

An Interview with Karla Quintero BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Karla Quintero is a dancer and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Karla discusses the importance of granting institutional support to myriad communities and challenging individual habits of […]

October 5, 2017  |  Read Article

Balance is Not a Still Point: An Interview with Valerie Baadh Garrett

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING It was one of those serendipitous mornings in San Francisco when the fog half lifts over the Golden Gate Bridge, casting an effervescence on the surrounding beaches. Valerie dived into movement the way a wave dives into itself. The sand rode the pull […]

October 19, 2016  |  Read Article

Dancers on a Line

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POEM AND ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   are these clothes really still not dry? or is my skin too sensitive? fingers find damp nooks and crannies in the cotton   or do I just want to give every one their moment in […]

April 21, 2016  |  Read Article