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 over are finding the resources they need to get through this, as well as the strength to draw from it. -Emmaly
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Kathryn Roszak in Sausalito, CA
How has the coronavirus personally affected your dance practice?
My Women Ballet Choreographers Residency is on hold. This is our fifth-year anniversary and we have national participants such as Victoria Morgan (artistic director of Cincinnati Ballet) and Wendy Whelan (associate artistic director of New York City Ballet) planning to participate. Funders are poised, we have dancers from San Francisco Ballet and Lines Ballet dancing, and we have the possibility of a major theater in San Francisco to present our work. All of this was swept away and is jeopardized.
How are you creatively coping?
I am communicating with the dancers who now are in different states. I am making dances outdoors to feel some freedom from quarantine and am incorporating this experience into my work. I am documenting what is happening to dancers, women, and single people, as I am one.
What are you most worried about financially?
I felt I was reaching the fruition of my life’s work and it is rare to have such an alignment. It’s already challenging for women to be visible and funded and I think it will be harder for women to recover, so special support is needed.
What’s giving you strength or keeping you grounded these days?
I live in the small town of Sausalito, CA, and it’s like being quarantined in paradise. It’s a town known for being social and there are many singles here and we all are suffering from confinement. I am dancing outdoors to counteract the lack of studios."
To read the full article, visit http://stanceondance.com/2020/03/30/the-effects-of-social-distancing-on-our-dance-practices/