Stories are among our most potent tools. We need to unearth old stories that live in a place and begin to create new ones. We are story makers, not just storytellers. All stories are connected, new ones woven from the threads of the old. – Robin Wall Kimmerer, paraphrased
Join ARENA DANCES for our weekly Studio Stories Podcast, where each week we reminisce on Twin Cities dance history with a new special guest. This week, we learn of Pam Gleason’s journey.
Visit http://www.arena-dances.org to listen, or check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
Pam has been creating, teaching and performing dance for over 40 years. She was involved with the Nancy Hauser Dance Company/Hauser Dance from the mid-1980s through 2011 as an apprentice, company member, teacher and choreographer, along with freelancing in the community. As director of MotionArt (co-founded in 2013 with Diane Moncrieff), she is dedicated to providing opportunities for people – no matter their age or ability – to move, express, learn, create and find community in dance – whether through the Ageless Dance class she initiated with Heidi Hauser Jasmin twenty years ago, or through other adult and children’s classes, monthly improvisation gatherings, somatic workshops and performances.