Where Multifaceted Meets Multidisciplinary

An Interview with Karen Sherman Karen Sherman is a dancemaker whose work draws upon her background in dance, writing, theater, music, and the handyman arts. Her experience working in nearly every facet of arts production – as a technical director, production manager, stage technician, and scenic/sound designer – also informs […]

February 7, 2019  |  Read Article

Archiving and Authoring at the Margins

An Interview with Mariana Valencia BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY IAN DOUGLAS Mariana Valencia is a choreographer in New York who combines theatrical and performative techniques with her interest in ethnography. Here she discusses her focus on marginality, how writing informs her performance practice, and her questions about archiving and […]

November 12, 2018  |  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

What Does the World Call Better? An Interview with Nancy Evans Doede

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Nancy was like a road. She was long and far-sighted, and had passed through many terrains. It was not only her story that was configured like a road, but her movement as well. “Let’s see,” she said to herself before she began to […]

September 25, 2017  |  Read Article

Thinking Trends in Dance, Theater and Journalism

An Interview with Julius Ferraro BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Julius Ferraro is the editor of thINKingDANCE, an online publication based out of Philadelphia. With a background in theater, he brings to dance writing a specific perspective on how dance and theater intersect. He reflects on the changing face of journalism, and […]

March 23, 2017  |  Read Article