Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Blog Series: My Dance Week

  • My Dance Week: Tara McArthur (San Francisco Bay Area)

    Hope Mohr Dance     Photo: Margot Moritz After 6 wonderful and formative years dancing with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, I transitioned from a full-time company setting to a freelance career in 2014. In addition, I started the process of becoming a GYROTONIC® instructor, finishing my certification in 2015. Since relocating to…

  • My Dance Week: Kristin Damrow

    I am excited to share another video blog post – i.e. vlog – from Bay Area artist Kristin Damrow. She offers a fun, playful, and detailed window into her work. Click on the image below. She captures daily tasks, teaching, performance prep, rehearsing, commuting, and finding personal time.     Kristin's upcoming show - Swallow - is May…

  • My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a K-12 School

    For the past year, we have shared dancers' schedules and all that they entail – teaching, training, rehearsing, performing, commuting, and finding down time. In Fall 2015, I asked members of NDEO (the National Dance Education Organization) for dancers with full-time positions within a K-12 school to share their weekly schedules. This series will feature…

  • My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a K-12 School

    For the past year, we have shared dancers' schedules and all that they entail – teaching, training, rehearsing, performing, commuting, and finding down time. In Fall 2015, I asked members of NDEO (the National Dance Education Organization) for dancers with full-time positions within a K-12 school to share their weekly schedules. This series will feature…

  • My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a K-12 School

    For the past year, we have shared dancers' schedules and all that they entail – teaching, training, rehearsing, performing, commuting, and finding down time. In Fall 2015, I asked members of NDEO (the National Dance Education Organization) for dancers with full-time positions within a K-12 school to share their weekly schedules. This series will feature…

  • My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a K-12 School

    For the past year, we have shared dancers' schedules and all that they entail – teaching, training, rehearsing, performing, commuting, and finding down time. In Fall 2015, I asked members of NDEO (the National Dance Education Organization) for dancers with full-time positions within a K-12 school to share their weekly schedules. This series will feature…

  • My Dance Week: Monifa Kincaid

    Brooklyn based choreographer, dancer and dance educator Monifa Kincaid has worked in various genres of dance from contemporary to rhythm tap. She has performed with Nia Love/Blacksmith’s Daughter Dance, Barbara Duffy and Company, Camara Dance Unlimited, New Tap Dance Orchestra/Brenda Bufalino, Sanza Nemo Collective/Guido Tuveri, and the tap ensemble “Sophisticated Ladies” featuring Dormeisha Sumbry-Edwards at…

  • My Dance Week: Sara Lavan

    I am the owner and director of Local Motion Studio in Alexandria, Virginia. I teach dance, Pilates, pre/postnatal fitness and barre. Additionally, I teach dance integration classes in a public school (1-4 classes a week depending on when in the year, funded by PTA) and will begin teaching dance and writing curriculum in a middle school dance program that will…

  • My Dance Week: Brandon Cournay

    One of the most exciting aspects of being a freelance dancer is that every day, and every week, is completely different. This week has been an exciting and very busy week for me. I am working on three different performance projects, so managing time and energy is the biggest challenge of my week. Monday, October 5th Today feels…

  • My Dance Week: Kristin Damrow

    Kristin Damrow is a San Francisco based choreographer. She began her professional career in Chicago while earning a B.A. in Dance from Columbia College. Since 2010, Kristin Damrow & Company has been presenting new, daring, and original work to the San Francisco Bay Area. They’ve presented at Constants and Variables, Resident Artist Workshop (R.A.W.), D.I.R.T.…