Circuitous Dance / Kate Warren

Debunking Coronavirus Mask Myths Elizabeth Matsui, M.D., MHS, debunks myths regarding why people should wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic. Matsui is a professor in the departments of Population…

How Improvisation Changes the Brain Research sheds lights on optimal communication and creativity.

Live shows get your heart racing – scientists prove it UCL scientists measured heart rates and sweat glands of audiences and found live shows caused much greater response

Please Stop Asking Dance Artists to Perform "in Exchange for Exposure" Earlier this week, a friend of a friend reached out to me seeking recommendations for a dancer/choreographer to hire. She wanted someone who could perform a solo and talk about their process for an arts-appreciation club. After a few emails back and forth, as I was trying to find out exactly what ki...

Articulate — Bill T'Last Bill T. Jones has lived through tragedy and triumph to become an elder statesman of dance.

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Questioning Contact Improvisation Photo by Robbie Sweeny INTRODUCTION For more than 15 years I’ve been working to understand and to explain how the social contexts of contact improvisation (CI) remain predominantly white and heterosexual despite the radical potential of the dancing and the utopian intentions of many CI dancers

JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a…

Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity “The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity.”