Dance in Community
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Morgan Teel choreographs in the larger world beyond the studio; her stage is Austin, TX, the city she calls home. In this episode of DanceCast, Morgan shares her process building her newest work at the local skate park, her experience building community through site specific dance, […]
May 4, 2017 | Read Article
Cracking the Surface of Possibility
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Mark Travis Rivera is a choreographer, writer, public speaker and advocate who lives in the world of intersectionality. Latino, gay, gender-non conforming and disabled, Mark’s life is a testament to how much agency a young person can have. In fact, the 26-year-old holds the distinction of being the youngest person to found […]
April 15, 2017 | Read Article
Rethinking Dance and Disability
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Mary Verdi-Fletcher shares her history founding and directing Dancing Wheels, a company and school based out of Cleveland, OH that has been uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities since 1980. Mary was one of the first professional wheelchair dancers […]
April 8, 2017 | Read Article
We All Had Our Shoes On
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Amii LeGendre has taught dance to incarcerated men in New York through two programs: the Bard Prison Initiative and Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She is a wellness coordinator and dance professor at Bard College, and is currently performing a new dance/theatre solo called “I’m looking at you as if” about her experience teaching dance […]
December 10, 2016 | Read Article
When She Moved Her Story
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Peggy Lamb and Barbara Abbate volunteer with incarcerated women through an organization called Truth be Told in detention facilities in Austin, TX. Peggy, a dancer and massage therapist, teaches creative movement through the Talk To Me – Movement series. Similarly, Barbara, an actress and public speaker, theatrically works with women through the […]
December 3, 2016 | Read Article