That Skirt

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   dramas dance down the sidewalk I want that skirt want a level of magic a body heightened experience   when the poet’s son and the reciter’s daughter dance it is magic healing, acceptance of […]

April 7, 2016  |  Read Article

A Dancer’s Winter

BY GWYN HENRY; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! Written to the Movement Artists’ Ensemble:   Quiet now our feet & deep our dance-less nod dreaming perhaps of movement dreaming perhaps of floor thirsting for mirrored light & yes quick silver notes that rise […]

April 4, 2016  |  Read Article

Dance When You’re Perfectly Free

Nothing re-inspires the soul quite like a poem… here’s a little end-of-year poetic inspiration to dance, dance, dance. Illustrations by Liz Brent ~~ I AM REALLY JUST A TAMBOURINE By Hafiz Good Poetry Makes the universe admit a Secret: “I am Really just a tambourine, Grab hold, Play me Against […]

December 28, 2015  |  Read Article

The Ladies of MAE

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT More than once since launching the Dancing Over 50 Project, older dancers from around the country have reached out to me to express interest and support. When Gwyn Henry wrote me about Movement Artists Ensemble (MAE) – a group of women in Escondido, CA who are moving […]

November 12, 2015  |  Read Article

Milk

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY MADELYN BIVEN; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I see a grey scarf and know nothing. Yellow-nosed nobodies bake bread on the sun. You strip tease hot details into batter and utter disaster, deaf diving like snow. We grew up watching ladybugs […]

April 30, 2015  |  Read Article