Challenging Dance’s Status Quo

MADISON PAGE, a self-described dancer movement person in Portland, Oregon, dissects not only the term “professional” with regards to dance, but what dance is and how our social systems shape how we relate to it. Her responses are part of a larger series dissecting what it means to be a […]

February 1, 2018  |  Read Article

From a Place of Generosity: An Interview with Deborah Cohen

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Perhaps the most natural dance floor in the world is a living room. So many children intuitively know this. How beautiful that Deborah knew it too, surrounded by the artifacts of her life. As she told me, “People who love to dance just […]

April 14, 2014  |  Read Article

Dancing for More than the Self

An Interview with Sacred Dancer Stella Matsuda BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT I recently found myself at a singing retreat with my aunt, and one of the participants was Stella Matsuda, a dancer who runs a sacred dance company. Since, in the handful of times I have attended religious services I have […]

March 20, 2014  |  Read Article