Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection
Where are you in dance right now?
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Where are you in dance right now? I posed this question to twelve high-school dancers last year. My intention is to ask them each year for as long as they respond, hopefully chronicling their growth through the practice of dance. Only eight of the original twelve high-schoolers responded to my […]
July 21, 2014 | Read Article
The Making of a Monument
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT “Hi Donna, this is Emmaly. I met you this morning as part of your performance art piece. I’m calling because I thought we were supposed to meet at 5pm to place your blood in a ravine.” This was by far the oddest introduction I had ever made […]
July 7, 2014 | Read Article
Ghost Town
BY ANGELA MAZZIOTTA Imagine a see-saw. On one end is you and on the other – an elephant. If that elephant moves, you’re toast. If you jump off, nothing changes for the elephant. You don’t matter / you may as well not have matter. Now you’re an elephant sharing a […]
June 26, 2014 | Read Article
Working with the Grey Areas
BY KATIE FLOREZ There is a Raymond Carver story entitled What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The reader is a fly on the wall for a conversation between two married couples. As the story develops, a bottle of gin is passed around the table and love is […]
June 19, 2014 | Read Article
Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque Rides a Magical Edge
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT In 2007, I saw the Kirov perform Don Quixote in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was enthralled. I felt I’d seen the epitome of bravura. That is, until this past Saturday the 14th when I went to the closing night of the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque. Now […]
June 16, 2014 | Read Article