Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Artist Profiles

  • Artist Profile #175: Bhumi B Patel (Oakland, CA)

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: After several years away from the Artist Profile series, I am thrilled to re-launch it in Fall 2025, and excited to have contributing writer Bhumi B Patel sharing her career path on Life as a Modern Dancer. The Artist Profiles are a wonderful way to hear first-person reveals and shares…

  • Artist Profile #174: Mary Carbonara (San Francisco, CA)

    Mary Carbonara. Photo by Weidong Yang   Hometown: Englewood, New Jersey Current city: San Francisco, California Age: 54 Attended an arts high school? No, but we had a dance teacher, dance studio, a contemporary dance company and a robust musical theater department on campus. I was able to take dance during school several days a…

  • Artist Profile #173: Robert Moses (San Francisco, CA)

    Robert Moses teaching. Photo by Peter Earl McCollough. Hometown: Philadelphia Current city: San Francisco Age: 58 College and degree: Bachelors of Arts, Cal State University Long Beach Website: RobertMosesKin.org How you pay the bills: Speaking, teaching, commissions, artistic direction All of the dance hats you wear: Dancer, Writer, Composer, Teacher, Speaker, Coach, Director ——— My…

  • Updated List: Artist Profiles # 1-172

    Kathleen Hermesdorf. Photo: Robbie Sweeny From Blog Director Jill Randall: Yes, the list gets longer and longer to scroll through….but what an incredible list of artists who have shared, in their own words, about their career paths. Since August 2012, 172 artists have taken the time to reflect and to write on their dance experience. …

  • Artist Profile #160: Nicole Vaughan-Diaz (New York, NY)

    Hometown: Miami, Florida Current city: New York, New York Age: 28 College and degree: University of South Florida, BFA – Dance Performance How you pay the bills: Kate Weare Company, and an event company, to supplement. All of the dance hats you wear: Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher, Dance Filmmaker/Editor Non-dance work you do or have done in the past: As a teenager I…

  • Catching Up with Ivy Baldwin (Artist Profile #74)

    Three years ago, Ivy Baldwin wrote an artist profile for the blog. Today, she candidly shares an update about her work and how major life events alter our artistic landscape.

  • Catching Up with Anna Sperber (Artist Profile #88)

    Today we catch up with Brooklyn-based choreographer Anna Sperber. She first wrote for Life as a Modern Dancer back in 2015. Read her original artist profile here. Photo: Ian Douglas How would you describe the past 2 years? The past two years have been very full! Thinking back to two years ago today – November …

  • Catching Up with Ashley Thorndike-Youssef (Artist Profile #8)

      How would you describe the past 5 years? Exciting, fulfilling, stressful. What would you say is the most major change in your dance career, or the role of dance in your life, since you wrote the profile? When I wrote this profile, I was splitting my time between Now Next Dance, teaching Pilates, and…

  • Catching Up with Julia Burrer (Artist Profile #69)

    Photo: Hope Davis Julia first wrote for Life as a Modern Dancer in August 2014. Today, Julia shares a bit about her current career and projects. Describe the past 3 years: So much has changed in the last three years! Looking back to when I wrote my first profile for Life as a Modern Dancer,…

  • Catching Up with Graham Brown (Artist Profile #54)

    Artist Graham Brown (now based in Provo, UT) wrote for Life as a Modern Dancer three years ago. This week, we reconnect with Graham, and he shares an update on his current dance path. —–  The past 3 years/ the most major change in my dance career: By far the biggest shift has been to dive…