The Summer of Your Passing

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EUGENE WILLIAMS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT There were angels and dragons in the sunset Lightning bugs rose in waves over the beans and corn From the woods, the screech owl called telling us your journey was smooth Under the full moon […]

April 26, 2018  |  Read Article

Dancing with Eugene

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT You and I fit together in the dance like two unusual ingredients. We were both long but your wheelchair was strong enough to support our wayward limbs. You moved every which way, so many surfaces […]

April 23, 2018  |  Read Article

One Man’s Road to Calling Himself a Dancer

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT I met Eugene Williams in a contact improvisation jam and, after several conversations, came to learn he was a wealth of stories and information. He has a unique outlook on the dance world, both because of his disability (Eugene rides in a wheelchair) and because he found […]

January 30, 2017  |  Read Article

How Does Sap Dance Up Trees?

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EUGENE WILLIAMS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   How does sap dance up trees? Slide around like a snake uncoiling from the darkness of the roots where it sucks in moist nourishment? Flow like a wave on warm flat sand, even and […]

April 14, 2016  |  Read Article