

Body Image in Ballet
Recently journalist Deirdre Kelly of DANCE Magazine asked me for a choreographer's perspective on ballet's body image issues. She only...


Hands and Symmetry
Last weekend I took a stroll through the Lower East Side and happened into McKenzie Fine Art, where the current exhibit is “Homeostasis”...


Elapse: Composition (The Main Course)
This is the third in a series of posts on the process of creating a new work entitled "Elapse" Once I've cast dancers, taught phrases,...


Music: 22 minutes Elapse
This is the second in series of posts on the process of creating a new work entitled "Elapse" Some of the most frequently asked questions...


Elapse: Dancing about Climate Change
This is the first in a series about the process of creating a new work entitled "Elapse" Elvis Costello allegedly said that “writing...


You call that ballet?
Last year I was asked to give a brief onstage introduction to one of my choreographies. Afterwards I walked down into the audience in...


Dance Rebels, It's Showtime!
A few weeks ago I happened upon a Facebook thread on the subject of “who are today’s “dance rebels”?". The question made me cringe and...


Groups
Group sections are the heart and pulse of the choreography I've made so far. But groups are really hard.....hard to work in and hard to...


Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
This is a still image from a film, and that's me in the window. But the story behind it is more interesting. In 2006 Drew Jacoby came to...