February’s Dance-Flask Listing

By Ryan Kelley and Emmaly Wiederholt Ryan, your dance-enthusiast-aficionado, blows off girlfriends and wastes untold savings on liqueurs in savage anticipation of the hottest dance pieces premiering around California. He’s diligently planning his dance calendar for next month, perfecting each carefully considered libation he will bring in his flask to […]

January 30, 2014  |  Read Article

Parallel Lives

As I sit in this office, a letter to my ballet student self… By Wiebke Schuster A few years ago, I wrote a piece to my ballet student self as I was transitioning from that wonderfully mind-numbing feeling of complete exhaustion from dancing all day to sitting in an office. […]

January 27, 2014  |  Read Article

Ballet to Me

By Courtney King I recently washed my ballet tights and somehow they all ended up grey. I now have four pairs of pink, grey-tinged tights. Of course, this does not pose an immediate problem, but for the day I enter a ballet class, I do not desire that my tights […]

January 23, 2014  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Sleeping Beauty…or the Ugly Insomniac

By Emmaly Wiederholt and Maggie Stack A story of love, intrigue and… sleep loss? Aurora, otherwise known as the beauty in Sleeping Beauty, can’t sleep! That’s because there’s a police helicopter that circles around her neighborhood and she stays up too late watching Downton Abbey or Mad Men and then […]

January 20, 2014  |  Read Article

Let One Inform the Other

By Angela Mazziotta If there is one thing I have pursued tenaciously and whole-heartedly, it’s that blobby identity crisis which bleeds freely over lines and seeps into genres with or without invitation; the dance form which loves to be called rebellious and shrugs when it’s misunderstood by the vast majority […]

January 16, 2014  |  Read Article