Telling Her Family’s Story through Dance
In choreographer Yvonne Montoya’s recent work, “Stories from Home,” she puts into dance the oral traditions of her family history in Northern New Mexico.
Reclaiming An Invisible Woman’s Dance
Dr. Yashoda Thakore, a Kuchipudi dancer and scholar in India, researches the Kalavantulu, the women temple dancers from Telugu-speaking areas. She describes their historical significance and why she is trying to erase the stigma around them through education.
Finding the Humanity in Dance’s Legacy
Paul Dennis, a dancer, choreographer, regisseur, and the Chair of the Dance Department at Hunter College in NYC, shares how his personal dance history led him to his work preserving the legacies of many of modern dance’s greatest choreographers.
Reclaiming Time and Place
Nikesha Breeze, Miles Tokunow, and MK discuss their piece “Stages of Tectonic Blackness,” performed in the Sandia Mountains outside of Albuquerque and in Blackdom, NM, which posits that a resting Black body on the earth is a radical act.
Three Generations of Indian Dance Pioneers
Indian classical dancer Sukanya Rahman shares her fascinating family history of her mother (Indrani Rahman) and grandmother (Ragini Devi), both icons of Indian classical dance.