Shifting Geologies, Sifting Forms

An Interview with Shebana Coelho BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY GENEVIEVE RUSSELL Shebana Coelho is a writer and performer originally from India who now resides in Santa Fe, NM. Her current project, The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects, combines flamenco, Sanskrit theater and spoken text, and explores themes of colonization, indigeneity […]

September 20, 2018  |  Read Article

The Camino of Pursuing Dance

LA EMI is a flamenco dancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She shares her view of flamenco as a camino, a path, rather than a destination at professionalism. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a professional dancer. To read other perspectives on the […]

February 5, 2018  |  Read Article

30 Years of Presenting World Class Flamenco

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Eva Encinias Sandoval is the founder and artistic director of the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque, an annual flamenco festival that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now in its 30th year, Eva waxes about how the art form has evolved over the past three decades, and […]

June 5, 2017  |  Read Article

Post Contemporary Dance: Are We There Yet?

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER For the past two months, I have been publishing interviews with contemporary dance artists, trying to address (for both myself and my faithful readers) what exactly contemporary dance entails. Because, to be honest, I’ve always been a bit dubious about contemporary dance. It […]

January 19, 2017  |  Read Article

Digging Deep: An Interview with Rubina Carmona

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Rubina has Parkinson’s disease. On a street near her home, in the community in which she has come to be a leader, she moved through her flamenco poses with neither the strength nor the power she’d had in earlier days, but with a […]

January 19, 2015  |  Read Article