Respecting Sexual Boundaries in Contact Improvisation

An Interview with Brooks Yardley ILLUSTRATIONS BY LIZ BRENT Brooks Yardley is a practitioner of contact improvisation in Canada who published the online zine “Respecting Boundaries/Coexisting Genders: Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv.” In this interview, Brooks shares why they felt it was important to create the zine, […]

June 12, 2017  |  Read Article

One Man’s Road to Calling Himself a Dancer

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT I met Eugene Williams in a contact improvisation jam and, after several conversations, came to learn he was a wealth of stories and information. He has a unique outlook on the dance world, both because of his disability (Eugene rides in a wheelchair) and because he found […]

January 30, 2017  |  Read Article

The Body You Dance: An Interview with Alito Alessi

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Alito spoke and danced like wind. I sense the wind’s power in what I see moved by it; I feel its scope in its universal affect; I discover its dimension in its varying layers. To meet Alito is to understand the definition of […]

October 26, 2016  |  Read Article

Earthdance: A Different Way of Living and Dancing

An Interview with Sarah Young BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Sarah Young is the executive director of Earthdance, an artist-run workshop, residency and retreat center located on 125 acres of land in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. This interview is part of Where Dance Is, a series of interviews with dance […]

June 6, 2016  |  Read Article

Fluid and Flexible

An Interview with Donald Andrew BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY LIZ BRENT Donald Andrew serves as a fellowships advisor at a college in New England. I learned of him through one of his former students, who told me incredulously how her college advisor does contact improvisation a few days a […]

May 19, 2016  |  Read Article