Cynthia Oliver wrote a wonderful artist profile this week, and this paragraph is pulled from it. To read her full profile, please click here.

Advice for dancers about writing about dance, and the many ways writing might be a part of their artistic life. 

We SO NEED dancers' voices. For so long others have interpreted us. Let’s interpret ourselves. Let’s give ourselves the authority to write about what we already know and be our own gatekeepers. Let’s write (generously!) about our work and about each others’ work. It’s not easy, especially when we feel like we are competing against one another for so little. But if we can find the generosity to write about what we are each trying to do, and how we are trying to do it, there is great value for us all in that. And the only way to get better at it is the same way we have treated our technical skills….is to do it over and over and over again.   

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You can explore the eleven writing exercises posted on the blog this year, in any order and at any time. Explore on your own or in a college course. Click here to read more.

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