A BITTERSWEET MOVE
“I’ve loved building the initiatives and pushing for that full-time ensemble.”
IN 2008 Natalie Weir took over as artistic director of Expressions Dance Company (EDC), succeeding its founder Maggi Sietsma. The company’s identity had been closely bound with Sietsma for 25 years, and some wondered whether it would survive without her at the helm. Financially the company was also in a perilous position with the loss of its triennial funding status. But as Sietsma herself predicted, Expressions
