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Deborah Hay: Turn Your F’ing Head!
For the last few months and up until the new year, the Walker’s Interdisciplinary Work Group, of which I am a member, is organizing a variety of visiting speakers and events each of which is designed...
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Twin Cities Dance
Fall is upon us with the Walker’s dance season beginning next week. In addition to the upcoming world premieres and special engagements as part of our offerings, we are celebrating two big...
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Sourcing Dance Through the Body: BodyCartography Project’s Creative Process
Cutting-edge dance artists “tend to explore anything that transports them closer to the inside, closer to an understanding of how and why they work the way they do,” writes Gill Wright Miller, editor...
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Feminist Movement: Deborah Hay, Artistic Survival, Aesthetic Freedom, and...
Deborah Hay has liberated contemporary dance on many levels, from her early days in New York to her international influence today. Not in the least from within the design of how she chooses to...
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Rude Mechs and the Beginning
I received the primer below for this weekend’s Out There opener from Rude Mechs’ co-producing artistic director and The Method Gun writer Kirk Lynn: I heard this story once: A man asks a woman to...
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Disarming Nudity Warnings: Nudes in Review
Eiko & Koma, Naked, 2010 Photo: Cameron Wittig When preparing to announce each new performing arts season, part of my job is to write about the upcoming shows and add warnings about adult content...
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luciana achugar: Reclaiming Pleasure and Revealing Labor (Equality)
luciana achugar, Franny and ZooeyPhoto: Alex Escalante Uruguayan choreographer luciana achugar believes that dance has the power to do many things. She deliberately chooses to write her name without...
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Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or...
Michele Steinwald, photo by Rino Pizzi When I asked a room filled with my peers to imagine an ideal future for presenting contemporary dance performances, they agreed on a set of qualities: a flexible...
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Choreographers’ Evening Auditions 2013: The Making of a Mixed Tape
The next Choreographers’ Evening, November 30, 2013, will be curated by Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs. Yon and Griggs are imagining the performance line up as a selection of songs for a mixed tape,...
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Defining a Vagenre: Categories of Nudity in Feminist Performance
Dress rehearsal for luciana achugar’s OTRO TEATRO at the Walker Art Center. Photo: Alice Gebura “It is misleading to label Rebecca Patek the new Ann Liv Young when the only thing that is remotely...
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