Still In It Together: An Interview with Nancy Davis and Jim Lane

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Nancy and Jim are partners in every sense of the word – dancing partners, business partners and life partners. Though their physical abilities in dance couldn’t be more different, their joint love of ballet is as strong as the tip of a pointe shoe; […]

September 11, 2017  |  Read Article

Rethinking Dance and Disability

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Mary Verdi-Fletcher shares her history founding and directing Dancing Wheels, a company and school based out of Cleveland, OH that has been uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities since 1980. Mary was one of the first professional wheelchair dancers […]

April 8, 2017  |  Read Article

Exploring Intersectionality Through Dance

An Interview with Alice Sheppard BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY ROBBIE SWEENEY Alice Sheppard is a dancer and choreographer who splits her time between San Francisco, New York and the United Kingdom. Her work is most notable for exploring the intersections between disability, race, gender and sexuality. Her newest work, […]

February 16, 2017  |  Read Article

Find a Way to make it Happen: An Interview with Bonnie Lewkowicz

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Bonnie’s chest concaved  and then opened. Her head tilted back and her arms circled behind her. Piano music played in the background, accentuated by the soft sound of the wheels from her chair on the polished wood floor. She pulled herself forward and […]

October 17, 2013  |  Read Article