Director’s Note, Oct 2009

Dance and fashion, what comes to mind when you read those words? For me, specific images that inform our movement-based, clothed libidos. What we put on our bodies is, at […]

SPEAK By Michelle Fletcher

I am writing you because I just quit my 9-5 job as a personal trainer. I started a dance company, Here Now Dance Collective. Knowing you and the pressure we […]

Dance, If You Think You Can

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not a journalist, but when given the opportunity to interview the judges of the popular television program, So You Think You Can Dance, I did not […]

2010 Highlight

I FEEL LIKE I’VE NEEDED TO BE REMINDED that work can be guttedly personal and really quite messy, and that the sheer truth and humility transmitted in that choice of […]

Pedagogical Frontiers in Technique: A Fresh Look at Old Ideas

Technique is a means of arriving at a statement. — Jackson Pollock WHAT IS A TECHNIQUE CLASS? Or, more importantly, how, do I teach a technique class? Modern technique. Ballet. […]

State of Play Festival: hadar ahuvia

nefesh sutures generations and genres, bridging the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims millennia old diasporic traditions and cultures almost destroyed by […]

Tax Tips for Artists

Home in Office If you book your gigs from home and/or rehearse there, you may take the portion of your apartment that is used exclusively and year round for that […]

Welcome, Mar 2010

Creating space for dance—whether real or imagined—is what makes a dance a dance. This is a timeless theme in our community, whether the tradition comes from the Judson via Halprin […]

Teaching and Choreographing: Mutually Beneficial Acts

By Patricia Reedy in conversation with Deborah Karp ON A RECENT SUNNY AFTERNOON, Deborah Karp and I left our desks at Luna Dance Institute to share a cup of tea […]

Welcome

Here we are. Have you figured out your superpowers yet? During hard times I’ve discovered that I’m able to call upon something unknown. I call this discovery my superpower. I […]