A triptych of images. On the left, a headshot of Mx. Pucks, a black queer femme woman. They are surrounded by nature and they are tilting their head slightly back in a dreamy way as their short black hair with light highlights is framing their face has their hand caressing their face. They are wearing a light brown crop top. At center, A photo of Vanessa, a Chicana woman with caramel skin, is leaning on her walker named Pluto that has blue spikes on the backrest. Vanessa is posing with her head leaning on the handle with her eyes slightly closed. Her arm is reach back. At right, Saira who is a Black with warm brown skin is seated wearing an all-white outfit, boots, and fabric over their face.

Mouthwater: A Disabled Dance Festival Launches in Seattle

Mouthwater: A Disabled Dance Festival started as a deeply personal dream for co-founders Saira Barbaric, NEVE Mazique, and Vanessa Hernández Cruz, and fellow curators Mx. Pucks A’plenty and India Harville. “Throughout time, our communities were often seen as either undesirable, objectified, or as a deficit,” the curators write in a joint statement. “We wanted to […]

September 19th, 2024

These 5 Mistakes Are Holding You Back from Improving

There’s a healthy dose of repetition in your dance education—whether it’s those same fundamentals you’re asked to practice over and over as you deepen your technique or the many run-throughs it takes to polish a piece of choreography. But teachers also see the same missteps and issue the same reminders from student to student, perhaps […]

December 10th, 2019

Will They or Won't They?

Improvisation, in its many forms, can be a door to the body’s imagination. One of the few festivals to delve into it is the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, July 30 to Aug. 6. This year the intensives are led by risk-taking teacher/performers including Hilary Clark, Anya Cloud, Joe Goode, Angie Hauser, Andrew Marcus and […]

July 27th, 2017