The Bunion: Match the Face to the Dance!

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAGGIE STACK Guess what dance styles these dancers are doing based on their faces! Good luck! 1. Options: Ballet? Or butoh? If you guessed ballet, you’re correct! Look at that presentation and uplifted smile!   2. Options: Lyrical? Or gaga? If you guessed gaga, you’re […]

April 23, 2015  |  Read Article

Tiny Deaths

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN In excavating remains of ancient cultures, archeologists never find any dance. Dying as it lives, dance doesn’t know how to sit around waiting to be found.   Tiny Death #1 We sit in the car, […]

April 20, 2015  |  Read Article

A Dance of Love… A Love of Dance

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHEL MEYER; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I’ll dance this dance of love this love I dance for you the audience is waiting, so I’ll share my story soon   The curtain begins to rise on a feature yet unknown anticipation grows […]

April 16, 2015  |  Read Article

The Perennial End

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY ANGELA MAZZIOTTA; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I’d like to start from the beginning of the end. Beside me is a lemon tree. There are more lemons than I can pick, and I – the more deciduous one – feel responsible for all […]

April 13, 2015  |  Read Article

The Way She Fits

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY AND ARTWORK BY JULIA COST The way she fits. The perfection. Settled on my forearm, my hand supporting her thigh. Her face tucked under my chin. Her breath gentle on my neck. My cheek against her forehead. Her ear on my […]

April 9, 2015  |  Read Article