Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Books

  • Articulating Experience

    Articulating Experience By Jan Erkert, Author of Harnessing the Wind, The Art of Teaching Modern Dance I spent my career making dances in Chicago, so as a city girl, I didn’t know much about nature. Suddenly, a yearning appeared to be away from cement and small spaces, so for a year I moved to five stunning…

  • Dance Books Published in 2015: Holidays Gifts to Give and Get

    As you begin shopping this season, here are some book titles that might pique your interest: Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness, and Engagement – Pil Hanson and Darcey Callison, Editors Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance – Katherine Profeta Pina Bausch Backstage (Photographs) - Salomon Bausch Moving Still (Photographs) – Lois…

  • Artist and Author Anabella Lenzu

    For me, writing is not so much a pleasure as it is a civic responsibility, and as an educator, my perennial goal is to generate appreciation for and understanding of the arts and of artists. Putting these words on paper forces me to be honest with myself. As a choreographer, I celebrate, meditate, respond, protest,…

  • Artist Profile #108: Sondra Fraleigh (St. George, UT)

    Hometown: Circleville, Utah Current city: St. George, Utah Age: 76 College and degree: University of Utah, BS 1962 Graduate school and degree: San Jose State University, 1970. I was around 32 when I finished. Website: www.eastwestsomatics.com  How you pay the bills: I’m retired with a pension, and I also have my own teaching institute for…

  • Moving Ideas: Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools

    Moving Ideas: Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools Edited by Dr. Mira-Lisa Katz, Peter Lang Publishers, 2013   The initial inspiration for Moving Ideas sprang from a desire to bring my parallel lives as dancer and teacher educator into conversation. After decades of fitting dance into the nooks and crannies of my academic…

  • Second Meeting of the Virtual Book Club

     The Cycle: A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations by Michael M. Kaiser   From Blog Director Jill Randall: Welcome back! This week, let's discuss chapters 3, 4, and 5. These chapters talk about institutional marketing, building your "family" of stakeholders and participants, and a strong board of directors. What ideas resonated for you? How do…

  • Writing Dancing: With Andrea Olsen

    The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making, by Andrea Olsen with Caryn McHose, Wesleyan U. Press 2014 —— Writing Dancing  By Andrea Olsen, MFA University of Utah 1972 When dancing, I love mixing things up: words and movement, science and art, you and I.  I write to learn, I move…

  • From the Author of Dancing to Learn

    About Dancing to Learn: The Brain’s Cognition, Emotion, and Movement By Judith Lynne Hanna, PhD My interest in dance began in 1946 when a pediatrician told my parents that dance would make my flat feet strong. So I studied ballet. I don’t think it helped my feet, but studying many different kinds of dance has made…

  • Reading Assignment #2 for the Virtual Book Club – Please Join In on July 22

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: Responding to several conversations recently with arts administrators from around the United States, it seemed like a great time to read and discuss a book together. We are exploring The Cycle: A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations by Michael M. Kaiser. Would you like to join us? Whether you run a…

  • Reflections from the Author of Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming

      By Kimerer L LaMothe, PhD The greatest challenge in my life as a modern dancer has been giving myself permission to do it.  Part of the reason is that I came to dance late—as a junior in college who was already enamored of intellectual life. I thought of myself as a rational, goal-oriented, individual, using…