Standing on Shoulders: An Interview with Laura Elaine Ellis

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING It’s worth noting Laura cut her foot during her photoshoot. Her dance knew no “no.” It was only a matter of “yes.” She spoke like butter and moved like a dragon. Color seemed to engulf her. She jumped into the dance and never […]

November 13, 2017  |  Read Article

Rethinking Disability through Enabling Theatre

An Interview with Susan Quick BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Susan Quick was first a dancer and later an actress before sustaining a head injury that changed her life. The native of Hebden Bridge, England built upon Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to create Enabling Theatre, a way of using theater […]

November 2, 2017  |  Read Article

A Voice of Social Activism

An Interview with Cathy Davalos BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Cathy Davalos is a Chicana choreographer and professor of dance at Saint Mary’s College of California in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, she reflects on why her identity as […]

October 9, 2017  |  Read Article

Expanding Experience

An Interview with Karla Quintero BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Karla Quintero is a dancer and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of a special dialogue in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Karla discusses the importance of granting institutional support to myriad communities and challenging individual habits of […]

October 5, 2017  |  Read Article

The Pursuit Is the Thing

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY COURTNEY MAZEIKA When I sat down to write out […]

August 21, 2017  |  Read Article