As university dance departments require that applicants for teaching positions hold terminal degrees, artists and writers are negotiating different paths to obtaining MFAs and PhDs. Interviewing five artists and scholars who […]
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The Choreography of Arts Administration
Photo credits, left to right: Nadhi Thekkek by Robbie Sweeny, Lenora Lee by Hien Huynh, and Antoine Hunter by Mark Kitaoka. You can listen to this piece on Substack! choreographer noun cho·re·og·ra·pher […]
The Rebirth of Apsara
The Rebirth of Apsara created by Charya Burt at Chenla Theatre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2025. ACT III dance scene “Robam Donvaay.” The photo shows the dancers moving together in a […]
It’s a Femininomenon!: Becoming Canny in Contemporary Performance with Fauxnique
Fauxnique: How Do I Look? Publicity photo by Robbie Sweeny. “How do I look?” a question that I’ve asked countless people over countless years of my life. I don’t know […]
Change and Exchange: University of San Francisco
Try to pronounce the letters P-A-S-J as a word with one syllable–PASJ–and you speak the lingo of young artists at the University of San Francisco. Rather, the shorthand version for […]
The Reclaiming
But I was never formally taught how to advocate for myself—there’s no class for that. But what if I had been expected to point my feet, hold my core, and be able to speak up for myself? What if there had been language developed to approach difficult dance situations?

