Propelling Wheelchair Dance Forward
Helen Mason, artistic director of Propel Dance, a new all-wheelchair dance company in the UK, describes her goal to create more job opportunities for dancers who use wheelchairs.
June 10, 2024 | Read Article
Kris Lenzo: “An Opportunity to Educate”
"A goal of mine is to reduce barriers and create more connection between people with and without disabilities." Kris Lenzo, a dancer with MOMENTA in Chicago, shares how education is key to creating more understanding about disability.
February 18, 2021 | Read Article
Charlene Curtiss: “They’re Missing the Best Part”
"Integrated dance has finally risen to the level where we can start being critical about it." Seattle-based dance artist Charlene Curtiss reflects on her career and the evolution of the field as part of the Discussing Disability in Dance Project.
June 22, 2020 | Read Article
Kitty Lunn: “I’m Waiting for the World to Catch Up with Me”
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT-MALDONADO Kitty Lunn is a ballet and modern dancer and teacher, a disability activist, and the founder of Infinity Dance Theater, a dance company founded in 1995 featuring dancers with and without disabilities. Based in New York City, Kitty is committed to bringing motion […]
May 20, 2019 | Read Article
Dancing with Eugene
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT You and I fit together in the dance like two unusual ingredients. We were both long but your wheelchair was strong enough to support our wayward limbs. You moved every which way, so many surfaces […]
April 23, 2018 | Read Article