In Conversation with Dance Monks’ Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty: Examining Natural Environments Through Interdisciplinary Performance

Water is essential. It sustains; it cleanses; it feeds; it restores. It makes all life possible. In recent months, these realities have hit particularly close to home as we have faced and […]

A Closer Look at the “Unconventional Dancer”

Developed in collaboration with homeless youth, choreographer Isak Immanuel’s newest piece, Illegal Echo, is a process-oriented work “concerning the themes of peripheral identity, transience and memory.” For Immanuel, the themes […]

A View From the Trenches: Critical Losses

Art nourishes consciousness. It helps us identify who we are, what we value, and what we might become. “The function of criticism is the re-education of perception.” (Philosopher and educational […]

Gaining Perspectives, Changing Perceptions: ARTICLE #1: How Politics and Power Shaped Dance in Pakistan

In a time where hatred and violence are a common occurrence abroad and in the U.S., I believe that artists play a critical role as cultural ambassadors and social change-makers. […]

Welcome

Looking Back with Love Dancers’ Group has been home. For thirty-five years I’ve worked on and off, mostly on, for this art-full organization. Learning on the job has always been […]

HOMEBODY: Movement Meets Buddha Nature

PICTURE A BUDDHIST. What comes to mind? A red-robed monk or nun sitting patiently on a cushion, lips gently smiling, eyes closed, legs crossed in Lotus Pose? Or perhaps you […]

TLAOLI: Gente del Maiz

Para Rodrigo Esteva — translation from Spanish by Mirah Moriarty included below. Mirah y yo creamos Dance Monks en el 2000 mientras vivíamos en Xalapa, México. Antes de esto habíamos pasado […]

In Tribute to Transformation

House/Full of BlackWomen has been built in episodes over a five-year period, sustaining a question posed by Ellen Sebastian Chang and Amara Tabor Smith

In Practice: Encounters Over 60 with Margaret Jenkins

Merián Soto, Photo by Bill Hebert In October and November 2019, I saw the work of three remarkable New York-based artists: Adia Whitaker, Miguel Gutierrez, and Tere O’Connor. Although O’Connor […]

SPEAK: Memory/Place

“Is it possible I think of my home in every thought, in every hour? I surrender myself. I dedicate to her these teardrops continually falling.” — From IIbn Hamdis’ ancient […]