Articles tagged ‘Erin Yen’

A light-skinned dancer wearing blue pants and a silver tank-top leans their body backwards while kneeling on a blue mat. Their long brown hair, tied back in a low pony-tail, drapes towards the floor as their left arm reaches gently forwards.

Erin: Considering Sustainability

Erin has been checking in with Stance on Dance every year for 12 years, sharing where dance has taken her each year. This year she expanded her nonprofit Dragons Dance and considered sustainability in her dance/movement practice.

Erin: A Blank Canvas

Erin has been checking in with Stance on Dance every year for 11 years, sharing where dance has taken her each year. This year she produced a weekend of dance performances and workshops in San Francisco, and is taking time to decide her next steps.

Four dancers bunched together smile into a mirror and take a selfie.

Erin: Processing a Transition

Erin has been checking in every year for 10 years, sharing where dance has taken her each year. This year brings newfound passions for lighting design, video editing, and choreography, as well as the affirmation to create her own artistic path.

Erin: Space is A Privilege

For the past nine years, Erin has been writing in every year, describing her life in dance. This year brought a renewed appreciation of space to move and of the lifelong journey that is dance.

Betty Towers and Stephanie Hewett as part of Dance for mmm

Reflections on “Dance for mmm”

Jhia Jackson and Jocelyn Reyes, two San Francisco Bay Area dance artists, reflect on a series of conversations they organized with seven artists they admire about how each artist adapted to the conditions of the pandemic.