Rethinking Dance Education

An Interview with Terry Goetz BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Terry Goetz is the director of the Creative Dance Center in Seattle. She took over from Anne Green Gilbert, who developed BrainDance and a brain-based approach to dance education. Terry shares how she came to value and support this approach, as well […]

August 16, 2018  |  Read Article

Why Choose?

An Interview with Non-Binary Choreographer Syniva Whitney Syniva Whitney is an experimental choreographer and interdisciplinary performance artist. They make work inspired by their non-binary transgender and black multiracial identity. Embodiment practices, dance improvisation and sculptural choreographic techniques are a part of their method. Gender Tender is the name Syniva gave to their […]

July 30, 2018  |  Read Article

Desire and Willpower: An Interview with Deborah Wolf

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Deborah said she liked to wear socks while dancing. Conversely, watching her dance seemed as simple as watching her put on her socks – it happened with such ease and lack of pretension so as to almost seem prosaic. When a dance is akin […]

September 22, 2017  |  Read Article

A Wisdom Practice: An Interview with Tara Stepenberg

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Tara struck me as a seeker; measured, meditative and ever moving forward. Like steel, she was grounded and supported; like lace, she was delicate; like sand, she was susceptible to the pull of the tide. And it was that shifting and sifting that […]

September 15, 2017  |  Read Article

A Brave New World of Dance-Writing

An Interview with Sandi Kurtz Sandi Kurtz is a dance critic based in Seattle who writes for Seattle Weekly and Seattle Dances. She reflects on the changes and subsequent implications she’s noticed in the field of dance-writing over the past couple decades. ~~ How did you get into writing about […]

March 18, 2017  |  Read Article