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More Winners & Honorable Mentions from D2D: R E w i n d & Virus

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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Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival: Six Foot Distance Dances

Most creatives are used to some degree of isolation… Painters, sculptors, composers, musicians, writers often work and/or practice alone. And most artists of all stripes are used to some degree of isolation and marginalization. But… this is unprecedented. And the dancers are getting restless. Major venues, festivals, and dance companies have cancelled their seasons. Gone are …

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i could have

A long slow walk down a dimly lit corridor, the statuesque and elegant silhouette of a woman walking, and the subservient, almost helpless figure of the love-struck man following her provide the main set up for i could have, what looks to be—but apparently isn’t—a music video for “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by the …

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A Glance from the Edge

As a choreographer doing copious amounts of site-specific work, I am obsessed with the possibilities proposed by the physical scale, both architectural and natural, that a site presents. I respond instinctively, pursuing the human movement, forms, and relationships suggested by and in response to the height, distance, and horizon of a place. How best to bring …

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The Blue Fall

Although first out on NOWNESS in 2015, the film The Blue Fall only recently came to my attention. It is an extremely short (under two minutes) and beautifully danced, filmed, and edited piece, featuring dancer and choreographer Nicole Morel with direction by Esteban. Morel has a lovely ethereal quality and in this short her movement is …

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