Tabled: Funding and Social Justice

San Francisco-based theater-maker Erin Merritt, San Francisco-based administrator/dance artist Andréa Spearman, and Brooklyn-based dancer/administrator Megan Wright discuss funding and social justice as part of Chlo and Co's Tabled series.

April 4, 2022  |  Read Article

Preserving, Promoting and Expanding Black Dance

An Interview with Denise Saunders Thompson BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) was founded with the mission of preserving and promoting dance by people of African ancestry or origin and assisting and increasing opportunities for Black Artists through advocacy, audience development, education, funding, networking, performance, philosophical dialogue, and touring. […]

February 14, 2019  |  Read Article

Expanding Experience

An Interview with Karla Quintero BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Karla Quintero is a dancer and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Karla discusses the importance of granting institutional support to myriad communities and challenging individual habits of […]

October 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

Contemporary Dance: Which Way Will It Go?

An Interview with Rachel Slater BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Rachel Slater is one of the artistic directors of Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance, a contemporary dance company based in Portland, Oregon. In this interview, she wrestles with what exactly contemporary dance entails, how to fund it, and where the form is headed. […]

January 12, 2017  |  Read Article