Day: January 28, 2022
Shifting From a Creature of Habit to an Ever-Evolving Artist Revitalized My Career
Many years ago, I had an experience at the Museum of Modern Art that rocked me hard. At a Willem de Kooning retrospective, there was a timeline of his career that detailed his stylistic shifts. Among other things, he worked as a house painter, a muralist, an abstract expressionist, a sculptor, then in figurative landscapes…
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25 Prompts to Liberate Your Choreographic Practice
I’m a white choreographer based on the ancestral lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, otherwise known as San Francisco. My recent book, Shifting Cultural Power: Questions and Case Studies in Performance, imagines equity-based models in dance that decenter whiteness. Writing about anti-racism work is a fraught endeavor because, as a white person, I’ll always have…
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