Field Notes

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY JUSTINE HIGHSMITH; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT touch. ground. open.   floor duets they witness apart, foot by inch   humming body, still roaring teeth in bone-white jaw compression of a thousand, maybe two thousand more eons of skin on dirt place […]

April 20, 2017  |  Read Article

Is That What I Am Holding?

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CATHERINE MARIE DAVALOS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT My back has been watched, the hipbone hurting for six episodes. I keep finding places, new palettes of expression to nothing. I turn, a different person, older, tired. Is that what I am holding? […]

April 17, 2017  |  Read Article

Dancing Within the Deep Blue Sea

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY DELPHINE HSINI MEI; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Pillow Willow Bridges of thoughts lead his path to home Once been found He was a child wandering wild In the palace of her heart She dances Steps that ease his wounds Sparks the […]

April 13, 2017  |  Read Article

Coat

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Do you see your body                 hanging off you                 like a coat on a warm spring day? Pull up your skin                 like a pair of underwear                 and prepare to move in it. […]

April 10, 2017  |  Read Article

Duende

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY MADISON KREKEL; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Only in service to you Can I feel the most free My brain powers down I do not move from intellect I can taste everything But I do not try to define it My love […]

April 6, 2017  |  Read Article