Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection

Just Friends

By Stephanie Salts I have a habit of falling in love. With people. Then with places. Sometimes things. Is dance a thing? Is dance a place? OR is dance a person? Maybe dance is all these things. I have found it in all three. I find it hard to introduce […]

January 10, 2013  |  Read Article

A Place to Put Our Feelings

By Emmaly Wiederholt Happy New Year! It’s new, at least according to our calendar. The world didn’t end on December 21st, though I doubt anyone really believed it would end. But with all this rumination on endings and beginnings, I’d like to pose a question: is anything different? Last month […]

January 3, 2013  |  Read Article

Forgetting and Remembering

By Julia Cost I must give some context about my state of mind recently, in order to understand this essay. I have been living within a thick questioning season, wondering intensely about what is worth watching… what is worth studying (this is not a new phase for me, but it has […]

December 13, 2012  |  Read Article

The Big Question: Why?

By Emmaly Wiederholt When I was a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, I asked choreographer and faculty member Alex Ketley, “Why should I go through all this?” It was a bit of a tongue-in-cheek question, I’ll admit, because I wasn’t unmotivated to work hard. I simply couldn’t […]

December 10, 2012  |  Read Article