Kait’s New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Diet
Guest Contributors At age thirteen, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul told me being 5’2 and 115 pounds was overweight (who let them publish this?). My diet highlight reel includes: “Rogue Weight…
Health and Wellness
Summerdance Meets Science
Lauren Warnecke I’ve been keeping my eye on Dr. David Marquez, who keeps his office across campus from me at UIC. Marquez is conducting some interesting research on the effects of Latin…
Sometimes it’s Reassuring to See that Other People Agree With You
There’s a nice article online at Dance Magazine floating around on the social media today about common mistakes we are making in the dance world. Author Nancy Wozny gathered information…
How I am Celebrating Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February is Eating Disorders Awareness Month, and there has been quite a bit floating around the blogosphere with respect to this poignant topic in the dance community. It’s just too…
A Chance to Dance. But, is it really your only chance?
In watching last week's episode of A Chance to Dance, I found a lot of myself in those young dancers. I remember what it felt like to think that this…
Superhumans (or not)
You may not know this, but I'm a HUGE cycling fan. So the news of Lance Armstrong's alleged use of performance enhancing drugs on 60 minutes last Sunday was a…
On Movement
https://vitiligosupport.org/soma.html Movement is on the brain. Here's why: In a post-show discussion at Dance Union, with the topic of the evening titled "On Movement", someone asked the panel of choreographers…