Creating Happier, More Just Communities Through Dance
An Interview with Sarah Crowell Sarah Crowell has worked at Destiny Arts Center—an Oakland-based organization that exists to end isolation, prejudice and violence in the lives of young people—since 1990 as a dance teacher, artistic director, workshop facilitator and program development director, and served as the organization’s executive director from […]
February 13, 2017 | Read Article
When She Moved Her Story
PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN Peggy Lamb and Barbara Abbate volunteer with incarcerated women through an organization called Truth be Told in detention facilities in Austin, TX. Peggy, a dancer and massage therapist, teaches creative movement through the Talk To Me – Movement series. Similarly, Barbara, an actress and public speaker, theatrically works with women through the […]
December 3, 2016 | Read Article
Rehabilitation through the Arts: An Act of Bravery
An Interview with Ricki Gold Ricki Gold, deputy director of Rehabilitation through the Arts, shares some of the highs and lows working within this unique organization that goes into five New York State prisons and offers theater, dance, creative writing, voice and visual art to utilize the arts as a […]
February 22, 2016 | Read Article
When Dance and Theater Meet
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT I recently had the opportunity to sit down with choreographers Eric Kupers and Randee Paufve of Dandelion Dancetheater and Paufve|Dance, and director John Flax and collaborator Kent Kirkpatrick of Theater Grottesco. They are currently in the midst of combining their respective ensembles (and disciplines) into a dance-theater […]
December 14, 2015 | Read Article
Beyond the Border
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT This past summer, Adam McKinney and Daniel Banks of DNAWORKS spent two weeks exploring the concept of borders, specifically the Mexican-American border, through dance in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez. I sat down with them to learn more information about the project, their working methods, and […]
November 16, 2015 | Read Article