Promoting Acceptance of All Sizes

Amy Marie, a dancer and model in the Bay Area, shares her experience forging a path for herself and how she has come against prejudice for being a bigger person as well as for not being big enough.

November 22, 2021  |  Read Article

Rethinking Inclusion and Performance

Bay Area multidisciplinary artist Eric Kupers discusses the impetus for the Inclusive Performance Festival, how “inclusion” is an ever-expanding term, and why new ways of thinking about performance are more needed than ever.

April 26, 2021  |  Read Article

Finding Their Voice, Forging Their Way

Bay Area-based dancer/choreographer Raven Malouf-Renning shares their experience finding their voice as a fat and non-binary performer, as well as their involvement helping to organize "Wandering in the Wilderness" as part of the Inclusive Performance Festival.

April 19, 2021  |  Read Article

Uncovering My Own Path

Editorial Note: Each August for the past three years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY ERIC KUPERS I’ve spent way too much time and […]

August 27, 2015  |  Read Article

An Affirmation of Spirit

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY ERIC KUPERS; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER Contraband’s Mira, Cycle III It was the early-mid-nineties. I had just moved […]

March 5, 2015  |  Read Article