Ritual and Connection

Korean dance artist Dohee Lee in Oakland, CA discusses her approach to making ritual performance and how it is rooted in community, especially her most recent piece, "Mu," which explores themes of connection.

July 25, 2019  |  Read Article

A Life in Movement

An Interview with Fanchon Shur Fanchon Shur, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a movement artist, movement scientist, movement therapist, poet and orator. She founded and has directed Growth in Motion since 1978, and the Fanchon Shur Ceremonial Dance Theater since 1974. She has been a private movement therapist since 1983. […]

January 4, 2018  |  Read Article

A Conversation About Everything in Relation to Everything

BY HANNAH KRAFCIK If you search the term “ecology” online, you will get “the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.” For a little over a week, several movers gathered together for Ecological Bodies: a week of somatic inquiry […]

August 31, 2017  |  Read Article

Beyond Labels: Butoh Mexican Ritual

An Interview with Diego Pinon BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Diego Pinon is a Mexican Butoh artist and the founder of Butoh Mexican Ritual. He delves into the essence of ritual, diving beyond specific cultures to discover the common threads uniting human physicality and experience. Here, Diego describes his past and process, […]

July 31, 2017  |  Read Article