Given the long history of American choreographers who have threaded activism into their work—Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Donald McKayle, Joanna Haigood, Bill T. Jones, Jo Kreiter, to name a few—it’s perhaps surprising that collegiate dance has offered so little in the way of training future generations to do the same. Until now, that is. Within […]

What’s on the minds of college students today? I recently had the honor of adjudicating at the American College Dance Association‘s National College Dance Festival, along with choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess and former National Endowment for the Arts dance specialist Douglas C. Sonntag. We chose three winners—one for Outstanding Choreography and two for Outstanding […]