Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

Four dancers in a dark studio hover in a circle and reach their hands to the floor in a small pool of light from a flashlight held by one of the dancers.

What Remains, What Becomes

Pioneer Winter of Miami, FL, explores the difference between holding versus keeping through commemorating the generation lost to HIV/AIDS and to his mother who died when he was young.

An illustration of a dancer wearing a pink dress showing her back with raised arms. The background is black.

Capturing Raw Moments

Albuquerque-based visual and dance artist Erica Wilson renders raw and surrealist moments in dance in her quest to capture gesture and flow.

Three smaller drawings all showing black figures dancing outside.

Appreciating and Experiencing Nature

New York-based interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Zeh showcases the exultancy of dancing outdoors through her mixed media visual art.

Like ghosts, black and white abstract figures move in and out of a open-topped box with doorways.

Gaga & Permanent Records Roadhouse

Los Angeles-based writer and dancer Benjie Salazar evokes exploring movement in a studio during a rainstorm in their poem “Gaga & Permanent Records Roadhouse.”

An outline in red of an abstract figure moving against embossed white paper.

New Orleans

Albuquerque-based poet and choreographer Tara King’s poem “New Orleans” brings to visceral life the air coursing through a body while enjoying “The Big Easy.”