Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection

Thrust Lives up to its Name

By Sarah Genta Malinda LaVelle’s Project Thrust debuted Kingdom recently at The Garage in San Francisco as a part of the RAW program.  And raw it was.  LaVelle and her fearless dancers consumed the audience on a ride through a world burdened with both silly and heart-wrenching foibles. From an awkward […]

March 11, 2013  |  Read Article

Weirdos Weirdos Everywhere

By Emmaly Wiederholt I’m a bit of a mess. Sometimes I’m goofy and clown around. Other times I want to dive into a philosophical treatise on art. Then someone says something that makes me want to cry, and soon I’m laughing at myself, crying. I’m simultaneously needy, the life of […]

February 11, 2013  |  Read Article

Facing Space

By Angela Mazziotta Space Dunce-ity Lately, it’s Space that’s been pacing along the rivery flow of my thought bubble galaxies. I am a platinum AIRhead, an aureate SPACE cadet, but don’t call me blonde. Maybe I’ve always been a bit sensitive to space and how I fit into its many […]

February 7, 2013  |  Read Article

An Introduction to Pueblo Dance

By Emmaly Wiederholt A couple of years ago, while lounging around my parents’ house in New Mexico over Christmas, I decided I wanted to go see some Pueblo dances. What is a Pueblo dance? The Pueblo people are Native Americans from the Southwestern United States. There are twenty-one different Pueblo […]

January 24, 2013  |  Read Article

Something from Hemingway

By Sarah Lyman An excerpt from an interview with the writer Ernest Hemingway: Interviewer: “Finally, a fundamental question: as a creative writer, what do you think is the function of your art? Why a representation of fact, rather than fact itself?” Hemingway: “Why be puzzled by that? From things that […]

January 17, 2013  |  Read Article