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

To My Fellow Dancer:

What do you want? Yes, we all want to be able to practice our art form and hopefully get paid to do it, but what do you want beyond that? What kind of relationship do you want to have with your choreographer and fellow performers? What kind of process do […]

January 30, 2012  |  Read Article

Lost and Found

I think it’s really exciting when people get up and leave in the middle of a performance. It shows that those people felt so strongly that sitting politely through the end was no longer an option, decorum be damned. It’s the kind of discourse I wish happened more often: discourse […]

December 10, 2011  |  Read Article