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

The Bunion: Swan Lake… or Pig Puddle

By Maggie Stack and Emmaly Wiederholt Ballet companies have been producing Swan Lake for the last couple hundred years. Instead of yet another rendition of Swan Lake to boo-hoo over, we’d like to present an alternative: the epic tragedy of a prince and his love for a pig gone awry […]

January 13, 2014  |  Read Article

Ballet is…

By Emmaly Wiederholt Let’s point our toes and get to the pointe: the topic on the table is good ol’ ballet – yes, that couple-hundred-year-old dance form we can thank Louis the XIV for inventing and the Nutcracker for perpetuating. Is ballet still relevant? Is it important to practice? Is […]

January 9, 2014  |  Read Article

January’s Dance-Flask Listing

By Ryan Kelley and Emmaly Wiederholt There once was a dance enthusiast Of all the arts he loved dance best Each month he planned his calendar To catch dance shows both near and far   But nary a show could he sit through Without libation, cocktail or brew No dance […]

December 30, 2013  |  Read Article