The Many Meanings of ‘Professional’

CHRISTIAN BURNS – a dancer, teacher and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area and founder of burnsWORK – muses on what professionalism means, the permutability of definitions, and how it varies dancer to dancer. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a […]

February 8, 2018  |  Read Article

The Pursuit Is the Thing

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY COURTNEY MAZEIKA When I sat down to write out […]

August 21, 2017  |  Read Article

Building Dance on Maui

An Interview with Hallie Hunt Armato BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews with high level dance artists working in places not well known for dance. Where do you live and work? I live and work on the island of Maui, Hawaii. […]

May 18, 2015  |  Read Article

When Performance Shatters Me

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY CHRISTIAN BURNS Standing in a lightless arena-sized room (the blackness representing everything I don’t know) holding a flashlight […]

February 23, 2015  |  Read Article