Asking the Right Questions: Interdisciplinary Arts in Academia
Lauren V. Coons, an interdisciplinary composer, performer, healing artist, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico, makes a compelling case for making academic arts programs truly interdisciplinary in scope.
June 3, 2024 | Read Article
Pain as a Generative Source of Creativity
Maggie Bridger, a dancer, choreographer, and PhD candidate whose work focuses on the intersection of dance, disability, and pain, discusses how her choreography and research inform one another.
May 1, 2023 | Read Article
Suzanne Cowan: “I Can’t Be Reduced to One Thing”
"I can’t be reduced to one thing, like being abled or disabled." New Zealand based dance artist Suzanne Cowan shares her view of how the body is part of a rich ecology and how disability fits into this larger vision.
March 1, 2021 | Read Article
Beyond Translation
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY JULIA COST Janet Lemon Williams is a dancer, academic, movement therapist and teacher in Guelph, Canada. Chatting with her was like traversing a landscape. She had opinions on just about everything; we talked for a good hour. Below are some snippets from our conversation. ~~ […]
March 17, 2016 | Read Article
From a Place of Generosity: An Interview with Deborah Cohen
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Perhaps the most natural dance floor in the world is a living room. So many children intuitively know this. How beautiful that Deborah knew it too, surrounded by the artifacts of her life. As she told me, “People who love to dance just […]
April 14, 2014 | Read Article