Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Choreographers

  • Catching Fruits Where They Fall: A Personal Reflection by Liz Duran Boubion

    Photo: Yvonne Portra Catching Fruits Where They Fall: A Personal Reflection By Liz Duran Boubion, Founding Director of the 5th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers As the artistic director of the Piñata Dance Collective, the first few years presenting the only Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) in the U.S. felt like I…

  • Musings on “Unison”

    After a recent performance in San Francisco, I was musing on the choreographic use of unison. When does it really “work?” Why do I personally love unison? When, and why, does it not work? I began a dialogue with a few choreographers around the country. Today I share ideas from Cynthia Oliver, Lauren Simpson, Amy…

  • Artist Profile #165: Shirley Ririe (Salt Lake City, UT)

    Hometown and current city: Salt Lake City Age: 89 Website:  www.ririewoodbury.com —– I graduated from the University of Utah. Elizabeth Hayes, who was later my boss and my good friend, pushed at me to audition for the Orchesis club for dance. She really pointed out my career for me. I later attended New York University for…

  • Artist Profile #164: Charles Slender-White (San Francisco, CA)

    Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti Hometown: Oceanside, CA Current city: San Francisco, CA Age: 34 College and degree: UC Berkeley, B.A. in English Literature and Dance & Performance Studies Website: www.factsf.org How you pay the bills: I make some money with my dance work, but my husband earns the bulk of our household income. All of the dance hats you wear: Choreographer, teacher, performer,…

  • Artist Profile #163: Kristin Damrow (Oakland, CA)

    Photo: George E. Baker Hometown: Mosinee, Wisconsin Current city: Oakland, California Age: 30 College and degree: B.A. Dance, Columbia College Chicago Website: http://www.kristindamrowcompany.com How you pay the bills: Teaching contemporary dance to ages 7-Adult All of the dance hats you wear: Choreographer, teacher, dancer, marketing / pr person, grant writer Non-dance work you do or…

  • Artist Profile #162: Nia Love (New York, NY)

    Artist Nia Love shares her career path within the field of modern dance.

  • Reconnecting with Choreographers Jenny Stulberg and Lauren Simpson of Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations

    Jenny Stulberg and Lauren Simpson; photo by Robbie Sweeny Five words or phrases to describe your work together this calendar year: We listen to each other. We speak words. We are learning about lighting. We are learning about the way we work. The first dance we made together was some sort of divine dance gift;…

  • My Dance Week: Peter DiMuro

    Peter is the Artistic Director of Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion and the Executive Artistic Director of The Dance Complex. Recent commissions have included a 21st century take on  Aaron Copland's "Rodeo," with permission granted by the Copland estate, and dances for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet." Peter will be the 2018…

  • My Dance Week: Banning Bouldin

    Banning Bouldin is the Founder and Artistic Director of the company New Dialect, based in Nashville, Tennessee. To read her full artist profile from January 2016, please click here. From Banning: My break down for last week is below. We're performing our HEAP Project in multiple site-specific iterations throughout our 2017/2018 season, and just received word that the…

  • My Dance Week: Alexandra Beller

    From Alexandra: This is a fairly typical week — not too crazy, not too light. I am working at Princeton (teaching two courses: Intro to Contemporary Dance and Performance and Repertory), Alvin Ailey (mentoring in the New Directions Lab), La MaMa (teaching the Trinity/La MaMa students Laban and Bartenieff), choreographing for Peter Pan for Bedlam…