Collaboration, Collective Art Practice, and When To Go it Alone

By Katharine Hawthorne   Dance making is an inherently collective and collaborative art practice.  Our professional structures focus on supporting dance companies; our training is group oriented, placing students into classes based on age and ability.  Despite the implicit collectivism in the performing arts, our landscape promotes individual artistic voices […]

May 23, 2013  |  Read Article

Just Dance

By Emmaly Wiederholt   Nike has made a fortune off of the slogan “Just Do It.” Some things make so much sense to “just do.” Just do your taxes. Just go to work. Just pay your bills. Does this totalism extend to dance? What does it mean to just dance? I […]

May 16, 2013  |  Read Article

Erotic Vegas Show with the Family

By Zach Intemann I recently travelled to Las Vegas for a cousin’s wedding. A few days before departing for Vegas, I received a text message from another cousin asking if I would be interested in seeing a show with him and other family members. I replied, “Definitely, which show?” My […]

May 2, 2013  |  Read Article

Magic!

By Angela Mazziotta This little ditty is for anyone who had a hard time accepting that Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny “aren’t real.” It’s for the people who believed once upon a time that Mickey and Minnie Mouse are two GIGANTIC talking mice (not some humans […]

April 18, 2013  |  Read Article

My April Fools’ Facebook Performance

By Emmaly Wiederholt This past April Fools’ Day I pulled a rather silly Facebook prank. Over the course of the day I updated my status over seventy times, chronicling every inane thing I did and every inane thought I had throughout the day. My point was to emulate to an […]

April 8, 2013  |  Read Article