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.
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.
“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.
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…
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.…