Resuenen: Interpretive Views of the Border
Micaela Gardner, a dancer and choreographer living in Baja, Mexico, reflects on making "Resuenen," an interpretive dance film that explores the US-Mexico border.
May 15, 2023 | Read Article
Amplifying Latinx Dancemakers in the Southwest
Erin Donohue and Yvonne Montoya, co-organizers of Dance in the Desert, discuss how the event has been successful in building bridges and relationships across the Latinx dancemaker community in Arizona.
May 16, 2022 | Read Article
The Credibility and Accessibility of Professional Dance
LIZ DURAN BOUBION is the artistic director of Piñata Dance Collective and co-director of ¡FLACC! Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Here, she reflects on the dance ecosystem and its multiple biases when it comes to professional dance. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means […]
February 15, 2018 | Read Article
Building Cultural Bridges
An Interview with Michelle Manzanales BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Michelle Manzanales is a choreographer and dance educator in New York City. Before being named director of the Ballet Hispánico School of Dance in December 2016, she served as rehearsal director and artistic associate of the main company of Ballet Hispánico since 2010. As […]
October 12, 2017 | Read Article
A Voice of Social Activism
An Interview with Cathy Davalos BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Cathy Davalos is a Chicana choreographer and professor of dance at Saint Mary’s College of California in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, she reflects on why her identity as […]
October 9, 2017 | Read Article