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Welcome Dd Contributor Morgan Beckwith
Dd contributor Morgan Beckwith Please give a warm welcome to the newest member of the Dd team, Morgan Beckwith. She will be contributing engaging content about the dance scene in Dallas County and...
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Getting Over the Hump with Laura Peterson
I caught up with choreographer Laura Peterson, in the midst of a busy fall fundraising drive, to ask her, “What gets you over the hump?” I am grateful for this window into her mid-week motivation:...
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Throwback Thursday: Frederic Franklin & Alexandra Danilova
Happy Throwback Thursday, gang. I’m excited to share this gem with Alexandra Danilova and Frederic Franklin, not to mention encourage you to visit Jacob’s Pillow’s amazing and addictive virtual world...
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Dd Short Short List for the Week of 11/4
1. Maria Hassabi’s PREMIERE Performers of PREMIERE From The Kitchen‘s site: “PREMIERE brings together performers Biba Bell, Hristoula Harakas, Robert Steijn, Andros Zins-Browne and Hassabi, sound...
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Dd Response: Run Don’t Run by Brian Brooks Moving Company
The show hadn’t even started and I was already in awe: Brian Brooks and Philip Trevino had created an installation that occupied the entire stage and from any seat you could see hundreds of red “cloth...
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A Letter from Dd Contributor Matthew: Jim and the Tiny Film Festival
Dear Readers, I’m thrilled to announce that my short film Jim and the Bike has been selected to screen in the Tiny Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film is up for the Viewer’s Choice Award. I’d be...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Martha Graham’s A Dancer’s World
Ever seen the Martha Graham film A Dancer’s World from 1957? It is fabulous and slightly creepy — I insist on watching it immediately. Martha Graham on pre-performance jitters: “Dread, a sense of...
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A Gathering 2013: The Dallas Arts District Persists in the Fight Against AIDS
I was a little uneasy about the nature of this particular benefit having the potential to be like so many others, repetitive and depressing. Instead, I was moved as the Dallas arts community presented...
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Wellness Sunday: Superfood Quinoa Pilaf
Dancers think about food. A LOT. As physical beings, food is not only nourishment, but fuel we feed our bodies. Food is like an input of information. Eating some foods can turn on disease promoting...
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SMU Rehearsal Directors Talk Differences in Working with University Dance...
In anticipation of Southern Methodist University’s Fall Dance, running November 13th-17th, I asked some of the rehearsal directors about their opinion on staging and creating works in the university...
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Dd Response: Keigwin + Company’s Tenth Anniversary Season
To quote rapper Eminem: “Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin to say but nothin comes out when they move their lips; just a bunch of gibberish….” When it comes to contemporary...
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Dd Response: Savion Glover’s STePZ
Savion Glover An audience made up mostly of families with children, young couples, and seniors gathered at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, November 2nd for a one-night-only...
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Dd Response: Maria Hassabi’s PREMIERE at the Kitchen
What does a crackling fire sound like? Does it resemble the early stages of corn popping in a pot on the stove—when there are intervals of silence between the pops? And is that pneumatic sound of a...
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Wellness Sunday: Dd Response to Anatomy of the Spirit
Maintaining mental, emotional, and spiritual health, especially for professional dancers, is just as important as maintaining the physical body. It is often more challenging to overcome the stuck,...
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Dd Short Short List for the Week of 11/17
1. Polish American Folk Dance Company The company performs for its 75th Anniversary at NYU’s Skirball Center. One night only, Saturday 11/23 at 7pm. I’ll be there! 2. The Barnard Project My former...
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Dd Response: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s Rain Dogs
Though Rain Dogs, choreographed by Johan Inger, was a new repertory work for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, it was not new to the Inger, who had created it originally for Ballet Basil in 2011. But,...
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Dd Response: American Dance Machine for the 21st Century at City Center
In the ever-evolving world of technology, the language of dance is still passed on through the generations from person to person. However, with so many new works being created, and so little of it...
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A Saturday Celebration: The Polish American Folk Dance Company’s 75th...
Up a few flights of stairs in a building decorated with the word “WARSAW,” dancers rehearse for an upcoming performance at NYU’s Skirball Center. The building is the former Polish National Home on...
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Dd Response: A Solemn, Frisky, and Captivating Evening of SMU Dance
The second week in November, Southern Methodist University dancers continued to surpass my expectations, tackling an impressive and wide range of repertoire. Students pushed their emotional and...
View ArticleAn Evening with Lang and Maruyama: Exploring the “Purity of Means”
“Purity in art consists in the acceptance, willing acceptance, of the limitations of the medium of the specific art.” -Clement Greenberg, Toward a Newer Laocoon, 1940 Last Saturday, I helped organize a...
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