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