“I’m Still Here”

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Over the past three months, I’ve had the honor of publishing 16 interviews with dancers over age 50 in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. What follows here is a particularly potent morsel from each interview: Click on photos to read full interview. Linda […]

January 26, 2015  |  Read Article

The Willingness to Keep Going: An Interview with Linda Austin

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Linda’s eyes shone with the faintest outline of tears by the end of her interview. As she moved into her dance, those tears morphed into a certain movement quality: soft, tender, sensitive and yet still practical and utilitarian. She had trekked the long […]

November 10, 2014  |  Read Article