Dancing With and Without Adjectives

An Interview with Amelia Uzategui Bonilla BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Amelia Uzategui Bonilla is a dance artist and educator who regularly performs and teaches in the United States and Peru. In 2013, she founded the Río Danza Comunitaria in Peru, an organization that protects water rights through community performance and arts […]

January 21, 2019  |  Read Article

Native Modern Dance’s Pioneer

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Daystar/Rosalie Jones founded her company, Daystar: Contemporary Dance Drama of Indian America in 1980, thus pioneering the field of Native modern dance/Indigenous contemporary dance. She shares her trajectory from the reservation to becoming a nationally acclaimed teacher, performer and choreographer, as well as discusses the current state […]

May 10, 2018  |  Read Article

A Wisdom Practice: An Interview with Tara Stepenberg

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Tara struck me as a seeker; measured, meditative and ever moving forward. Like steel, she was grounded and supported; like lace, she was delicate; like sand, she was susceptible to the pull of the tide. And it was that shifting and sifting that […]

September 15, 2017  |  Read Article

Sydney: Pushing Forward

Each summer for the past four years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in order for them to answer however it resonates personally. My goal is to create a yearly check-in to chart how these young women grow and mature through dance. […]

July 18, 2016  |  Read Article