Who Gets to Have a Voice?

An Interview with Kathryn Roszak BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Kathryn Roszak is a ballet choreographer based in the Bay Area. This past year, she spearheaded the inaugural women ballet choreographers residency through the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She shared with me her perspective on the trials women in ballet face in […]

September 8, 2016  |  Read Article

On Being a Good Ballet Feminist

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL PRENDERGAST I consider myself to be a good feminist. By that I mean I live my life in a way that doesn’t depend on any one man for my wellbeing, I actively support and promote women who are making achievements in their individual fields, […]

September 5, 2016  |  Read Article

Changing the Face of Dance around the Female Body

An interview with Krissy Keefer BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT In 1984, Krissy Keefer and Nina Fichter founded Dance Brigade to create and perform dance-theater that addresses the complex problems of contemporary American women. Prior, Krissy co-founded the Wallflower Order in 1975 as the nation’s first feminist dance company. I had the […]

February 8, 2016  |  Read Article

How Can Making Dance be a Feminist Act?

Hello, we are Courtney King and Melissa Lewis. In the last year, we have been molding and developing a dance collective called hers and hers — her (Courtney), plus her (Melissa), plus the shared her. As young, fresh-cut artists, we feel very new. Though we claim the title of co-founders cautiously, […]

June 11, 2015  |  Read Article

The Art of being a Woman/Beast

BY KATIE GAYDOS As a dancer in the Bay Area, I’ve found myself lately shying away from writing critical responses to local dance performances. I assumed writing about the work of people I encounter on a regular basis within the dance community would violate some professional boundary between the personal […]

October 4, 2014  |  Read Article