Modern Moves’ Approach to Studying Afro-Diasporic Dance

An Interview with Ananya Jahanara Kabir BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Ananya Jahanara Kabir was the project director and principal investigator of Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures, a five-year research project (June 2013 – May 2018), funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, and located at the Department […]

May 6, 2019  |  Read Article

The Realization of “Not Knowing” with I Moving Lab

A dialogue with Dåkot-ta Alcantara-Camacho, Jack Gray and Hannah Krafcik; Edited by Hannah Krafcik “Dance serves as a tool to strengthen a doing of indigeneity – a way of knowing and interacting that both locates knowledge and generates and reinforces methods for knowing and connecting – and thus also serves […]

October 19, 2017  |  Read Article

Researching Every Step Along the Way

An Interview with Becca Fullmer BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Becca Fullmer is a member of Salt Contemporary Dance, a new contemporary dance company based in Salt Lake City, UT. She is also the director of its second company, Salt 2. Becca likens the work of contemporary dance to that of research, […]

January 2, 2017  |  Read Article

Researching Contemporary Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PAINTING BY JULIA COST I’m here to say: I don’t really know what contemporary dance is. “Contemporary” means new, so therefore contemporary dance must be relatively new choreography or composition. Most of us who have pursued dance (in almost any genre) have at some point encountered the […]

November 21, 2016  |  Read Article