Finding Room to Dance

An Introduction to the Where Dance Is Series BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN I didn’t move to Santa Fe to dance, though I knew I wasn’t finished dancing. I didn’t know what I was going to find, but the last thing I expected to find was room. In […]

May 4, 2015  |  Read Article

Here it Comes, There it Goes

BY MALINDA LAVELLE I am plagued by the phrase “I don’t know.” In a world where any given piece of advice has a separate and equally valid piece of counter advice, I find the more questions I ask, the fewer answers I have and the more decisions I hesitate to […]

March 26, 2015  |  Read Article

Parker Murphy’s Story

BY LIZ BRENT This interview is part of Men Who Dance, an ongoing series that looks at the experiences of men in the field of dance. My name is Parker Murphy, and I’m 23 years old. Most recently, I’ve worked on projects with Gerald Casel Dance, Detour Dance, FACT/SF, 13th Floor Dance […]

January 29, 2015  |  Read Article

An Artistic Quandary

BY JAMIE RAY WRIGHT As a black man, I have been heartbroken and upset over the recent events in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island. It is one of a whole line of incidents that have become all too familiar to people of color in the United States. My most vivid […]

December 18, 2014  |  Read Article

The Artful Shoe Drop

When you’re a high fashion dancing drag queen and you lose a shoe… From Monique Jenkinson: I have so many costume stories… There was a point at which I realized that what most inspired my dancing was costume, and things just fell into place from there. I have made so […]

October 23, 2014  |  Read Article