Sydney: I Am Enough

Sydney has been checking in with Stance on Dance every year for 11 years, sharing where dance has taken her each year. This year she got promoted to full company member with Avant Chamber Ballet, as well as explored her passion for teaching and choreography.

August 28, 2023  |  Read Article

Sydney: I’ll Never Settle

For the past seven years, Sydney has been writing in every year, describing her life in dance. This year brought opportunities to perform in New York City and her first steps as a professional.

August 8, 2019  |  Read Article

The Attitude of Being a Professional

DELPHINE HSINI MEI is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Taipei, Taiwan. She shares her frustration with commonly held assumptions about dancers, and stresses the subjectivity of pursuing an artistic endeavor. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a professional dancer. To read […]

March 1, 2018  |  Read Article

Professionalism Through a Burlesque Lens

RAVEN GEMINI is a burlesque dancer with Chicago’s Vaudezilla. She shares a peek into the world of burlesque dance and how some of the assumptions often made about professional dance differ in burlesque. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a professional dancer. To […]

February 26, 2018  |  Read Article

Exploring the Identity of Professional Dancer

KELVIN VU is a freelance dancer in Tel Aviv and former dancer in the Batsheva Youth Ensemble. With experience both dancing in a full-time company and doing project-based work, he has a wide lens on what professionalism in dance can be. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what […]

February 22, 2018  |  Read Article