What Role Should Virtual Intensives Play In Your Training This Year?
Are online-only intensives are a relic of the past? Not necessarily. Here are some things to consider as you make your summer plans this year.
Keep Your Talent: How Managers of Dance Businesses Can Combat “The Great Resignation”
Whether you’re a studio owner, run a dance company or work at a dance nonprofit, you may have started to breathe a little easier lately as operations have stabilized after almost two years of pandemic upheaval. So news of “The Great Resignation” is disconcerting. More than 19 million workers (and counting) have quit their jobs […]
Begin Again: Dealing With a Spoonful of Setbacks
When I was a young dancer, a teacher once told me that a day off in dance was like a week off in any other passion. Although this is a myth that’s been debunked, those words have still haunted me every day for the past nine years.
Bringing Back Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge
In 2020, Company XIV prepared to honor the 10th season of its holiday production, Nutcracker Rouge. A libertine twist on the classic ballet, the show features bawdy, rigorous choreography danced with a glittering cocktail of carnal abandon and precision. Throughout the show—which includes opera on an aerial hoop—the cast performs onstage and among the audience. […]
These Colorado Dancers Transformed Loss Into Opportunity
For many dancers, the spring of 2021 brought the long-awaited return to the in-person performing they had been dreaming of since the coronavirus took hold of the world last year. For others, the pandemic’s impact proved too devastating for their companies to recover from. This became the reality for the dancers of Aspen Santa Fe […]
How Dance Experts Are Reimagining the Post-COVID World
The lurch of conflicting COVID-19 guidance has wildly shifted how we occupy space with one another. Our collective improvisation through the “coronasphere” (as scholar Kate Elswit brilliantly named it) has been subject to an onslaught of rules, reversals and regulations. As part of a shared research project with Dr. Heidi Boisvert and Melissa Painter through […]
Begin Again: A Dancer’s Return to the Industry After 9 Years of Chronic Illness
As I finished my last grueling medical treatment just over a year ago, my doctor said something to me: “Your body has stuck with you through a lot. Do something special with your life to show your gratitude.” For nine years I have struggled with the debilitating effects of chronic Lyme disease. Now, as my […]
Jennifer Weber’s “While You Were Gone”
During the many months that theaters sat empty, did you ever wonder what went on inside of them? Choreographer Jennifer Weber‘s new short film “While You Were Gone” follows breaker Gabriel Emphasis using the entire theater at The Bushnell in Hartford, Connecticut, as his own personal stage, before being joined outside by a whole crew […]