Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection

I Have Made It, So Now What?

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. Peiling Kao, photo by Orfeas Skutelis BY PEILING KAO In […]

August 14, 2017  |  Read Article

Doing The Twist

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY DAISY PHILLIPS The trouble with “making it,” in my […]

August 10, 2017  |  Read Article

One More Rung

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY KRISTIN DAMROW There has always been a competitive streak […]

August 7, 2017  |  Read Article

Actions and Iterations of An Indigenous Female-Led Future

BY JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY This past July at the New Moon Ceremony in Berkeley, California – which was called for in the “Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth” treaty – treaty signer Pennie Opal Plant spoke of two things needed in this time of planetary crisis. We need […]

August 3, 2017  |  Read Article

Erin: Lessons From The Body

Each summer for the past five years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in order for them to answer however it resonates personally. My goal is to create a yearly check-in to chart how these young women grow […]

July 20, 2017  |  Read Article