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  Quaranzines: Self-Producing Meets Self-Publishing By Sarah Chien After the cancellations came the Zooms, and after the Zooms, the dance films. I browsed exquisite corps videos while baking bread, and, scrolled past Instagram live conversations while I gardened. There was a lot of talk about new platforms,  but each of these virtual stages left me…

Shareen DeRyan and Emma Lanier. Photo by Jennifer Perfilio. A Practice of Unknowing, Breaking Away from Structures and Habits: An Interview with San Francisco Dance Artist Jennifer Perfilio By Jill Randall   I got to catch up with Bay Area colleague Jennifer Perfilio the other day on Zoom, to hear about the past year of…

Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Emily Hansel, and Cora Cliburn at work in an outdoor rehearsal. Cultivating Healthy, Equitable Workplaces for Dancers By Emily Hansel Two months ago, I wrote a piece that detailed many widespread injustices that dancers endure in the professional workforce and called for dancers’ employers to help end the cycle of abuse. After it…

Kennedy Cannon It’s More Than Dance: An Interview with Kennedy Cannon (Black Dancers in Higher Education Series) By Camryn Eaglin What does it look like when students have a safe space for important dialogue in higher education? Is it freeing? Does it create more conflict and division? Is it unifying? I think artist citizenship can…

Asha Yates. Photo courtesy of the artist. Read Camryn Eaglin's March interview with Asha Yates here.   In case you missed a few, here are the pieces on the blog from the month of March: A Moveable Dance from LA Dance Project #StopAsianHate: Another Week of Violence Day by Day, Week by Week: 7 Ideas…

Say their names – of the 8 people killed on March 16, 2021 in Atlanta, GA. From Blog Director Jill Randall: It has been another week filled with violence and hate, this time towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. My heart leans towards the Atlanta community as well as every family and community…

  I love time-based projects big and small, whether performance based work or ideas for the classroom. Today I am resharing 7 projects that might be of interest to you in the springtime. You might read the posts and use the words and guiding questions; or, you might like to read about each project and…

Asha Yates. Photo courtesy of the artist. Black Dancers in Higher Education Series Pushing through Discomfort and Making Room: An Interview with Asha Yates By Camryn Eaglin   Details and nuances can make all the difference in identifying individual and collective experiences within a community. How do we  navigate traditional expectations of dance? How do…

    An Honest Outlook: Are there two different experiences? Interview by Camryn Eaglin The second interview in our Black Dancers in Higher Education Series is one filled with an authentic and critical perspective that needs to be shared. We have opted to keep this interviewee and the university anonymous, being in the best interest…

MashUp’s International Women’s Day Festival: Choose to Challenge (March 5th-8th) By Camryn Eaglin LA-based contemporary dance company MashUp is hosting its 5th annual International Women’s Day (IWD) Festival in a fully virtual fashion. The company, whose art uplifts feminist narratives through dance, hosts the festival in honor of women’s achievement, equality and empowerment. The overarching…