DANSE LUMIÈRE

An excerpt from Stance on Dance:

"In an effort to understand how dance is being intimately affected by the coronavirus epidemic and its ripple effects, I sent out a questionnaire to dance friends and colleagues. Below are some of the responses I received. I hope dancers the world o...

Nicole Moyer and Andres Kundzins rehearsing Kathryn Roszak's new ballet during Corona virus in Colorado studio during blizzard! 

The show must go on!

With COVID-19 orders to stay home, many dance artists find their performance and teaching jobs cancelled indefinitely.

I am a professional choreographer and director with Danse Lumière and I am making a daily practice of dancing at sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve asked s...

Deborah Enelow is a retired educator who supports women in the arts, especially women choreographers. Here, she shares her impressions after attending the Women Ballet Choreographers and Composers Residency at Djerassi in Woodside, California this past June 15, 2019...

" The 4th an...

"Where are all the women choreographers?"

...asks Dance Magazine, as well as numerous other news and arts publications, dance companies and schools. Among choreographers in the ballet world, women are a minority group.

Kathryn Roszak's Danse Lumière has addressed this, by developing...

Danse Lumiere spent an amazing weekend last  Sunday, June 2nd performing at East Bay DANCES 2019, hosted by Oakland Ballet Company. 

Heather Desaulniers of Dance Commentary says, 

"For the past five years, Oakland Ballet Company has closed its annual season in a wonderfully uni...

ModNomad Studio presents a

Screening at the Shack

of 

Secrets 

Director Kathryn Roszak will introduce this short film inspired by Tomas Tranströmer's poem, Shubertiana.

& 

A Thousand Years of Joy

Producer Jennifer Nix will introduce this 2017 Emmy Award-winning documentary about the life...

 Featured Image (From Left to Right): Robert Hass, Kathryn Roszak, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mads Tolling

On April 3rd, Robert Hass reads from his selection of poems by Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer that he translated, and Kathryn Roszak screens and discusses her
short film...