The Credibility and Accessibility of Professional Dance
LIZ DURAN BOUBION is the artistic director of Piñata Dance Collective and co-director of ¡FLACC! Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Here, she reflects on the dance ecosystem and its multiple biases when it comes to professional dance. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means […]
February 15, 2018 | Read Article
The Many Meanings of ‘Professional’
CHRISTIAN BURNS – a dancer, teacher and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area and founder of burnsWORK – muses on what professionalism means, the permutability of definitions, and how it varies dancer to dancer. His responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a […]
February 8, 2018 | Read Article
Am I A Professional?
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Am I a professional dancer? The question reads like something out of those “advice for dancers” columns I read in Dance Magazine as a teenager. “Dear all-knowing dance guru: I’ve studied dance in many forms for several years and I perform regularly, sometimes for […]
January 11, 2018 | Read Article
Dancing Of, By and For the People
An Interview with Anne Bluethenthal BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Anne Bluethenthal is a dancer and choreographer in the Bay Area, and artistic director of ABD Productions and the Skywatchers Program, which brings residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District into partnership with professional artists to create multi-disciplinary, site-specific performance installations that amplify […]
December 11, 2017 | Read Article
Limitless in a Limited World: An Interview with Kathryn Roszak
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Kathryn’s staunch opinions and forthright realism about the schema of women in the dance world were strong and well-founded. She spoke with authority. But when she danced, what began to surface was a beautiful contradiction: she sharply questioned dance, and yet continued to […]
November 30, 2017 | Read Article