December 2011
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As promised, we tried to answer what we thought...
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Do dancers need heroes?
Do dancers need heroes?
Dance doesn’t directly save lives or rescue anybody.
Our roles aren’t those of firefighters, doctors, or The President.
Who do you look up to?
Do communities need to look up to someone?
Do dancers need role models?
Are our role models the iconic choreographers backstage or do we look up to one specific performer/image/character?
Choreographers and artistic directors have...
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Reconstituted dance: As unappealing as...
Our wonderful friend Lizzie Sells is moving to Mexico this month. We will miss her and wanted to publish an article she wrote after attending the talk A feeling for practice. Revivals: Moving beyond the steps, during Dance Umbrella 2011. Her approach is gutsy and refreshingly uncompromising when it comes to critiquing the effect of reviving dance works on dance performers. Take it away...