Articles tagged ‘Dance’

Burlesque performers wearing black on a bright stage with bubbles floating around.

DIY Dance

Erin Kilmurray, a Chicago-based dance artist who is best known for the queer punk dance and variety performance project The Fly Honey Show, describes the drive behind the DIY (do-it-yourself) aesthetic found throughout her work.

A group of women wearing yellow shirts lift their arms above their heads and look up.

The Healing Power of Movement

Lucy Wallace, director of Dance To Be Free, facilitates dance in prisons to reduce anxiety and depression through the healing power of movement.

A shirtless dancer reaches up to the light. Their hand is blurred in movement. The background is dark.

Fragility and Disability Discourse

Alessandro Schiattarella, an Italian dance artist based in Switzerland, shares his journey as a dancer with a disability, his choreographic processes, and his experience creating access and awareness through his work.

An illustration of a dancer wearing a pink dress showing her back with raised arms. The background is black.

Capturing Raw Moments

Albuquerque-based visual and dance artist Erica Wilson renders raw and surrealist moments in dance in her quest to capture gesture and flow.

Several children follow a dance class on a wood floor.

Where Dance and Literacy Meet

Talia Bailes, director of Ballet and Books, describes how her nonprofit works nationally to reduce the literacy gap through the hybrid storytelling of dance and reading.