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