Archiving and Authoring at the Margins

An Interview with Mariana Valencia BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY IAN DOUGLAS Mariana Valencia is a choreographer in New York who combines theatrical and performative techniques with her interest in ethnography. Here she discusses her focus on marginality, how writing informs her performance practice, and her questions about archiving and […]

November 12, 2018  |  Read Article

Bringing Dance Home

An Interview with Summer Belnap Robertson Summer Belnap Robertson is the artistic director of St. George Dance Company in St. George, Utah. After dancing in New York City, she returned to her hometown in southern Utah, where she has played a major role in building the adult dance scene. She […]

September 27, 2018  |  Read Article

A Trip Worth Taking

Editorial Note: Each August for the past six years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY RACHEL I. BERMAN this is not the piece this is […]

August 27, 2018  |  Read Article

Alexandra: Here We Go!

Each summer for the past six years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in order for them to answer however it resonates personally. My goal is to create a yearly check-in to chart how these young women grow and […]

July 23, 2018  |  Read Article

Outside Institutions

An Interview with Patricia Chen BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Patricia Chen is a dancer, teacher and choreographer living in Bordeaux, France. After a career in New York, she found herself in France, slowly building her own dance practice, creating her company – Chendance – and building her studio in the countryside […]

May 31, 2018  |  Read Article