Dancing on Sands

An Interview with Donne Lewis BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY APRIL FREEMAN Donne Lewis is a tap dancer and foot percussionist in Albuquerque, NM. About six years ago, she discovered tapping on sand in a workshop. Since then, she has devoted herself to studying and developing the art of dancing […]

July 12, 2018  |  Read Article

Exploring an Empty Dance Studio

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY GWYN HENRY; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I embrace the corner this juncture of walls a meeting place for spine and sheet rock.   Demarcation. A map, a sign: this way will hold you true.   As I go along the wall […]

April 12, 2018  |  Read Article

The Many Meanings of ‘Professional’

CHRISTIAN BURNS – a dancer, teacher and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area and founder of burnsWORK – muses on what professionalism means, the permutability of definitions, and how it varies dancer to dancer. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a […]

February 8, 2018  |  Read Article

Expanding The Borders of Dance

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Violeta Fatás, a dancer in Spain devoted to expanding integrative dance. Violeta shares her perspective on the integrative dance scene in Spain, how she became interested in access and disability, why dance – especially improvisation – is particularly suited […]

December 4, 2017  |  Read Article

The Pursuit Is the Thing

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY COURTNEY MAZEIKA When I sat down to write out […]

August 21, 2017  |  Read Article