My Body’s Notebook

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CONSUELO GONZALEZ; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT A prayer is rolling in like fog on the smooth wood floor, waiting to be kicked up by our heels and toes and stirred. A prayer is our energy focused, dancing a trio, moving from […]

April 9, 2018  |  Read Article

Let Pretense Go

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CHERYL PALLANT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   This she is also an I. I am listening. There is this way of knowing. With bones, breath, a sideways glance, a whisper.   She walks across grass and down the corridor, struts in […]

April 5, 2018  |  Read Article

Wind of My Soul

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY LAURA HAYES-MEERMAN; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT The wind blows So softly Through my lips. The right side Holds so much. Opening my pelvis I drop deep And feel my sorrow. I hold so much Do I dare Speak my truth. The […]

April 2, 2018  |  Read Article

Dance Belts Through the Decades

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAGGIE STACK For the past five years, Stance on Dance has served the greater dance community by exposing the secret world of dance belts. From couture belts and famous belts to multi-cultural belts and political belts, we revel in the simple beauty of covering a […]

May 25, 2017  |  Read Article

Piñata Solo

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY LIZ BOUBION; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT In the beginning, I am a beet red baby born in a heat wave in the LA basin. Candy melts inside a pinata moon hanging in the backyard Four sweaty brothers with grass-stained knees line […]

April 27, 2017  |  Read Article