Most dancers will tell you that they didn’t choose dance… it chose them. The process of becoming a dancer and/or dance maker is fraught with pain, struggle, and rejection. I am so pleased that today dance is moving towards being an art form that has something for every body. This is one of the many inspirations …
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“How Can I Say Who I Am if the River is Gone?” -after Natalie Diaz, the Scorpion Queen never has a river belonged to me nor I to any body of water. who am I, if I cannot even remember a house? a special place I used to hide in, or even a rock to …
(Excerpt from the novel manuscript Esther Days) *** I’m twenty years old and the only one in my family to finish high school and then a typing class directly following. It was something that connected me to the world or maybe disconnected me from it. Typing was something quiet, something simple. Sweetie always told me to …
The poetry community of Los Angeles is built and maintained and reimagined and rebuilt anew primarily by its practitioners. These poets devote time they might otherwise spend writing to founding and running magazines and small presses, opening or staffing bookstores, curating readings and offering workshops. Through their labor they feed the community so that it …
In Herakles, translated by Anne Carson, Euripides writes, “Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” Anyone that has lost anyone will feel that longing for something of the person that is gone; and yet, there are ways people stay with us, especially through the medium of poetry, which has the miraculous ability …
Live dance pops up like a tulip in Costa Mesa and downtown’s Union Station, a dance tour in unfamiliar Santa Monica, one dance film series ending and a new one begins, plus online encores, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. This Week A return to “live” The first post-pandemic …
Still spry and charismatic at 91, John Cullum offers an enchanting and charming solo turn in John Cullum: An Accidental Star, a 80-minute career retrospective with songs. This virtual cabaret piece, available online until April 22, was produced by the Irish Repertory Theater, the Vineyard Theater and Goodspeed Opera House, three theaters Cullum has worked …
Climate Change – Power Plant Terry Braunstein and Victor Raphael – A Collaboration This collaboration grew out of a professional relationship and mutual appreciation of one another’s work. They were motivated to create these artworks in response to the current political environment over the last few years. Four series of limited edition ink jet …
For this thirty-fifth post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Jonathan Yungkans and Scott Ferry. Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic …
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WHEN MY FATHER WAKES UP on that first sweltering night of that first scalding summer, soaked in sweat like my mother when she suffered those terrible hot flashes forty years ago, he stumbles out of bed and lumbers to the archaic air conditioner, fumbling for the right button to bring it back to life with …
When you are living in a small living space, it can often seem like an impossible task to decorate whilst making the most out of the space that you have. However, it is not impossible. In this article, we will be providing you with some of the top bathroom design options that we believe will …
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