A Letter to Our Multi-Marginalized Disabled Dancers

My beloved disabled dancers,

I am gazing at the shadows of trees dancing upon
gravel walls as the golden hour sun joins in.
It’s beautiful isn’t it?

Notes on Rendering Vessels

This writing is an accumulation of reflections on transformation taken from dark/lessons/rupture, an evening of performance excerpts featuring new works by Jess Curtis and Beyond Gravity artists, Silk Worm and RUPTURE (jose e. abad, Gabriele Christian, Stephanie Hewett, Styles Alexander, and Clarissa Dyas), co-presented by Gravity and CounterPulse.

Flux Vertical Theatre: Grand Opening Gala

Flux Vertical Theatre is a small, local, women-owned business dedicated to promoting the art of vertical dance including pole and circus arts. Since launching our performance company in 2015, Flux […]

TV-MA: Avante-garde pop composer available for hire

I’m TV-MA and I’m a queer, transmasculine, latine, composer, producer, and musician. I specialize in making avante-garde pop that can sometimes be ethereal, experimental, and dark. I am looking for […]

How to Create Compelling Video

The following excerpts on video representation and production were taken from “Creating an Effective Promotional Video” (1994). We are grateful to Patricia Milich and the California Arts Council for providing […]

Demystifying the Art of Presenting

As a presenter for nearly 30 years now, the question I get asked by artists, more than any other, is, “How do I get my work presented?” Sometimes it’s directed […]

First You Must Observe

Shortly after WWII, educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy came together determined to ensure that fascism would never again occur in their country. Hope for the future would lie in the […]

Finding Creative Action in the Teaching World

Teaching artists can no longer afford to wait for administrator buy-in or to be offered a seat at the table. In the January/February 2014 issue of In Dance, I described the […]

“That Unspeakable Somewhat”: Bill T. Jones, Abraham Lincoln, and the Question of Iconicity, May 2009

Trying to secure an interview with Bill T. Jones is like trying to secure a lunch date with Madonna. Here we seem to be in the presence—or absence—of icons. So […]

WOMXN SPEAK: WORD!

Photo by Robbie Sweeny WORD. In the vernacular, you say “Word,” to express agreement, validating you’re listening to what someone is saying. You might also hear it when something said […]