Embodying the Conversation on Arts and Social Justice

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Adam McKinney, cofounder of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization committed to dialogue and healing through the arts. He discusses how he became involved in race and trauma work; how dance can build community and address oppression; DNAWORKS’ programming […]

May 14, 2018  |  Read Article

A Practice Where We Come Together

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Adam Benjamin, a pioneer and much esteemed choreographer and teacher in the field of integrated dance. Based in the United Kingdom, he describes his introduction to disability through a visual arts residency at a spinal injury clinic, and how […]

May 3, 2018  |  Read Article

The Practice of Giving Art

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN, PHOTOS BY DIRK SKIBA In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Wagner Moreira, a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and teacher living and working in Dresden, Germany. Wagner and Silva discuss the in-between place of living in one country but being from another, the role of Wagner’s father […]

March 22, 2018  |  Read Article

Speaking of Integrated Dance

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Douglas Scott, artistic director of Full Radius Dance in Atlanta, Georgia. Silva and Douglas discuss, among other things, the importance and challenge of transposing movement for bodies of different abilities, the choice of the word “transposing” and how it […]

March 15, 2018  |  Read Article

Positive Discrimination?

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN, PHOTOS BY DAVID WOHLSCHLAG In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Maija Karhunen, a dancer and performer based in Helsinki, Finland. Maija discusses the practicalities of touring as a disabled dancer, attitudes in Europe toward disability, how to navigate the special attention that disability voices receive, and […]

March 8, 2018  |  Read Article