Tag: dance writing
Thirteen Days in Durban
*Note: This piece appears in the JOMBA! Khuluma Digital, a magazine summarizing the 20th annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience. Five students at the University of…
Art Intercepts turns 3! Well, sort of.
It’s my bloggerversary! Even though I technically bought the domain in 2009, on September 15 three years ago I pushed “publish” on the very first…
National Dance Day 2013, and a peek into the archives at my best bits
In homage to National Dance Day, I’ve been sifting through some of the archives here and elsewhere to get an idea of everything that’s happening…
April is Chicago Dance Month!
In spite of an exciting month ahead, things might be a little quieter around here. I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be contributing to SeeChicagoDance.com to…
Deirdre Kelly Gives the Dirt on Ballerinas
Last weekend I saw Les Miserables in the movie theater, and it was ironically appropriate given the book I was reading at the time: Ballerina by…
A Meeting of Bloggy Minds
Zac Whittenburg perhaps tweeted it best: Zachary Whittenburg trailerpilot In full effect: deep-fried pretzels and real talk with dancinbranflake artintercepts danceadvantage mariasmovers + 4dancers.#DUSAconf What kind of blew my mind about…
Springing to a New Realm in Dance Writing
I admire dance critics, but I certainly don't envy them. Weekends spent in a dark theater hunched over a notepad; people you barely know…
Sometimes, Lauren thinks
I work, and I write, and then I work some more, and then I write some more. And then, sometimes, I think. What I…
Antiquity and idiocy:
I'm certainly not the first blogger to write about the recent scandal surrounding Alastair Macaulay's review of NYCB's Nutcracker, and the subsequent follow-up. In the review, Jennifer Ringer…
SYTYC Write Scientifically About Dance?
While I was a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Illinois I forced (appropriately chosen term) my aerobic conditioning students to write a two-page…
