What Remains, What Becomes

Pioneer Winter of Miami, FL, explores the difference between holding versus keeping through commemorating the generation lost to HIV/AIDS and to his mother who died when he was young.

April 28, 2025  |  Read Article

Remembering Adam Darius

BY KAZIMIR KOLESNIK I first met Adam Darius when I was an 18-year old directionless youth, harbouring vague leanings towards art and theatre. As with many other students whom he has taught in a long and acclaimed worldwide career as a mime artist, dancer, teacher and author, he inspired me […]

December 14, 2017  |  Read Article

Moving Beyond Loss: An Interview with Ann DiFruscia

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Ann held sadness in her. It was a very real melancholy based on her life experience of loving and losing. But when she danced, something seemed to shed. It was the first time since meeting her I had truly seen her face smile […]

November 20, 2017  |  Read Article

Dancing through Death

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Liv Schaffer, a young dance artist living in the Bay Area. Liv lost both of her parents to cancer, and set out to process her experience of loss through dance. Her ongoing project, Deadication, incorporates dance and video, most […]

June 22, 2017  |  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