The Generosity of an Older Generation

By Emmaly Wiederholt It’s the difference between showing and sharing, the difference between displaying everything and hiding nothing, the difference between proving you have the guts to make a fool out of yourself and indifferently playing the fool. I’m not sure if it’s a matter of intention or maturity, or […]

April 9, 2012  |  Read Article

An interview with Costumer Keriann Egeland and Choreographer Aura Fischbeck

From nude to couture, what the audience sees performers wearing radically affects their experience of the performance. In order to take a closer look at the important role costumes play I interviewed costume designer Keriann Egeland and choreographer Aura Fischbeck. Egeland has created costumes for Katie Faulkner, Nina Haft, and […]

April 5, 2012  |  Read Article

An Interview with Christian Burns

“Our physical effort to capture and give form to our thoughts and our fleeting perceptions is the base level of the creative act.” “A dancer is in the profession of living one’s life in front of people and among people. To me that is the ultimate function of dance: to […]

March 26, 2012  |  Read Article

The Doorway to Another World

By Emmaly Wiederholt As a performer, it’s incredibly jarring coming out of performance to greet my audience. It feels like a breach of contract in that I just committed myself to a role and now I have to transfer myself out of that role. It’s a shock and I never […]

March 12, 2012  |  Read Article

Finding the Frontier

I love the story of the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring. Whether the riot that followed the premiere can be blamed on the dissonant arrhythmic music, the pounding tense choreography, or the political and cultural times, it seems as though there was a clear frontier where […]

February 12, 2012  |  Read Article