Erik Ferguson: “Dancing is How the Body Learns”
“My entire art practice now is centered on survival.” Portland based anti-virtuoso movement artist Erik Ferguson discusses how he has found more access and freedom in fringe dance spaces.
Kelcie Laube: “It’s About the Relationship”
Oregon-based DanceAbility teacher and performer Kelcie Laube offers her perspective on how “having people who have a disability in a performance shouldn’t be a special thing. It should be a normal thing.”
Choosing to Fill the Void
Portland-based dancer Jessie Nowak describes her journey letting go of stereotypes and finding her own path in dance after having children.
“Making It” As An Indigenous Two-Spirit Dancer
What does “making it” in dance look like for a decolonizing Indigenous Two-Spirit in the United States? California-based dance artist Snowflake Calvert (Daniel Arizmendi) tries to answer this for herself.
Promoting LGBTQ Identity and Preserving History
Choreographer/director Shaun Keylock in Portland, OR shares how his work explores facets of LGBTQ identity as well as how he is working to preserve Portland’s contemporary dance history.