Hai Cohen: “I Would Like to See Good Dance, Period”

Hai Cohen, co-manager with Tali Wertheim at Vertigo Power of Balance in Israel, discusses making improvisational and accessible dance spaces in Israel, as well as how he would like to see more good dance in general.

May 30, 2022  |  Read Article

“We Can Invent Anything”

Tali Wertheim and Hai Cohen, artistic directors of Vertigo Power of Balance, an Israeli based inclusive dance company, share their story and how they have worked to spread contact improvisation and inclusive dance.

June 24, 2021  |  Read Article

Promoting Boundaries and Pushing for Equality

An Interview with Kathleen Rea BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Kathleen Rea is a dancer, improviser, choreographer and activist in Toronto, Canada. In 2000, she formed REAson d’etre dance productions, a dance company that promotes contact dance improvisation. Through her company, she has produced the Wednesday Dance Jam, the Contact Dance International Film […]

October 11, 2018  |  Read Article

Contact Improv’s Leviathan Studio

An Interview with Mark Young BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY SOREN WACKER Mark Young founded and built Leviathan, a dance studio dedicated to contact improvisation on Lasqueti Island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Home to about 400 year-round residents with a passenger-only ferry connecting the island to the […]

June 11, 2018  |  Read Article

Writing the Dance

An Interview with Cheryl Pallant BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Cheryl Pallant is a dancer, writer and professor in Richmond, Virginia. She has published several books of poetry and nonfiction, as well as many articles. She discusses the convergence of dancing and writing in her life, and how one feeds the other. […]

October 26, 2017  |  Read Article