An Interview with CounterPULSE’s Julie Phelps

CounterPULSE’s “May Day” is coming up May 3-5, celebrating CounterPULSE’s seven years of supporting experimental artists. The bill features a variety of local performers, ranging from Sara Shelton Mann to Marga Gomez. In order to learn more about CounterPULSE, I interviewed Program Director Julie Phelps. Emmaly Wiederholt: How did you […]

April 23, 2012  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Art, Dart… or Fart!

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAGGIE STACK The Bunion presents: Art, Dart… or Fart! An appraisal of dance through the decades. ~~     Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring: People rioting, horses trampling, what a stink. FART!           Anna Pavlova in The Dying Swan: Let’s help a […]

April 16, 2012  |  Read Article

A Study of Unison

By Julia Cost when i love unison I like watching how faces wear the evening the crease of skin between eye and nose drawing vaguely tighter making everyone look a little more vulnerable, a little more animal I like heavy rain too That the man and woman arguing on a […]

April 12, 2012  |  Read Article

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