Alice Sheppard: “I Want to Build a Network of Legacy”
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT-MALDONADO After taking her first dance class on a dare, Alice Sheppard resigned her academic professorship to pursue dance. As a member of AXIS Dance Company, she toured nationally and taught in the company’s outreach programs. Since becoming an independent artist, Alice has danced […]
May 16, 2019 | Read Article
Discussing Disability in Dance: A New Book Project
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT Here’s an interesting fact: One in four people in the United States have a disability that impacts a major part of their life according to a 2018 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 25 percent of the US population. […]
May 13, 2019 | Read Article
Exploring Afrofuturism through Dance and Art
An Interview with Layna Lewis and Kayla Banks BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOGRAPHS BY NINA LEWIS Viva La Free is a nonprofit in Portland, Oregon that creates art healing projects and public art to energize, enchant and heal communities, centering vulnerable and marginalized populations most impacted by systems of oppression and […]
May 9, 2019 | Read Article
Modern Moves’ Approach to Studying Afro-Diasporic Dance
An Interview with Ananya Jahanara Kabir BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Ananya Jahanara Kabir was the project director and principal investigator of Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures, a five-year research project (June 2013 – May 2018), funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, and located at the Department […]
May 6, 2019 | Read Article
The Language of the Body is the Oldest Language
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Sally Davison, a dancer, choreographer, and master DanceAbility teacher in the UK and Finland. Sally discusses the strength of DanceAbility as valuing participant-led knowledge and making inclusion possible. She asserts that DanceAbility is not just about disability, but about […]
May 2, 2019 | Read Article