Trusting the Dance, Navigating the Divide

Madelyn Biven, a dance artist based in Hawai'i, reflects on the duality she experienced pursuing dance in the continental US while simultaneously longing for her home on the islands. She shares how she navigated and found peace within that divide.

September 28, 2020  |  Read Article

Milk

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY MADELYN BIVEN; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I see a grey scarf and know nothing. Yellow-nosed nobodies bake bread on the sun. You strip tease hot details into batter and utter disaster, deaf diving like snow. We grew up watching ladybugs […]

April 30, 2015  |  Read Article

Small Explosions

Editor’s note: This month on Stance on Dance, several dance artists have been asked to share a pivotal dance experience that changed their trajectory or the way they think about dance.  BY MADELYN BIVEN; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER Miriam Wolodarski’s Fall Work Mott Studio of ODC as part of the […]

March 12, 2015  |  Read Article