What the Hell Happened in San Francisco?

Emmaly Wiederholt shares her experience creating and performing a piece with her longtime friend Malinda LaVelle that wrestles with the idealism, dreams, and disillusionment of pursuing dance.

June 23, 2025  |  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

Viable Rural Alternatives for Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT When I was living in San Francisco and Los Angeles, how many times did I hear friends wax philosophic about someday living in nature on a nebulous farm or cabin, or go camping and Instagram the lake and trees, or just complain about traffic? I’ll tell you: […]

May 23, 2016  |  Read Article

Dating a Dancer

Jake Padilla is a musician currently living in Durango, CO. He has worked for a decade as a teacher and performer for various theater productions, bands and in solo performances. His girlfriend, Malinda LaVelle, is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and the artistic director of Project Thrust. This is the world […]

July 30, 2015  |  Read Article

Here it Comes, There it Goes

BY MALINDA LAVELLE I am plagued by the phrase “I don’t know.” In a world where any given piece of advice has a separate and equally valid piece of counter advice, I find the more questions I ask, the fewer answers I have and the more decisions I hesitate to […]

March 26, 2015  |  Read Article