Marissa Brown: More Freedom

As part of this month’s series on dancers who facilitate their own dance practice outside a major institution, New York City based Marissa Brown shares the ups and downs of creating solos on herself. ~~ What does your current dance practice look like? Right now I mainly take class, usually […]

January 4, 2016  |  Read Article

Rethinking “I’m A Dancer”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY JULIA COST For as long as I’ve danced (since I was five), I’ve wrestled with a feeling of invalidity when I tell people I’m a dancer. Now that I work fulltime as a writer, I feel even more so like I defend myself against being […]

December 31, 2015  |  Read Article

Dance When You’re Perfectly Free

Nothing re-inspires the soul quite like a poem… here’s a little end-of-year poetic inspiration to dance, dance, dance. Illustrations by Liz Brent ~~ I AM REALLY JUST A TAMBOURINE By Hafiz Good Poetry Makes the universe admit a Secret: “I am Really just a tambourine, Grab hold, Play me Against […]

December 28, 2015  |  Read Article

#tbt Nutcracker All The Way

This December on Stance on Dance, we’ve taken #tbt to another level. (FYI, #tbt is the hashtag for throw-back Thursday, as in posting funny old photos of yourself from the 90s on Facebook.) What better way to celebrate the holidays than to share some darling ol’ Nutcracker photos from some of […]

December 24, 2015  |  Read Article

When Dance and Theater Meet

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT I recently had the opportunity to sit down with choreographers Eric Kupers and Randee Paufve of Dandelion Dancetheater and Paufve|Dance, and director John Flax and collaborator Kent Kirkpatrick of Theater Grottesco. They are currently in the midst of combining their respective ensembles (and disciplines) into a dance-theater […]

December 14, 2015  |  Read Article