World Dance Alliance Concert Review #2
July 27, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
As American as…
By Elizabeth Zimmer
In the middle of North America sits the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a world-class campus that pays admirable attention to dance, having produced some of the earliest pioneers in educational dance (including Margaret H’Doubler and Anna Halprin) and having recently hosted a three-week intensive that sent several pieces to mid-July’s World Dance Alliance Global Dance Event (the current president of the WDA, Jin-Wen Yu, is also the chair of the UW-M dance program). Four faculty members—two of Asian descent, one from the Caribbean, and one native Midwesterner— from the school’s dance department shared the final concert program ...
THE STATE OF CRITICISM, PART ONE
April 24, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
I’m sure I’ll have much more to say on this over time, so I labeled the post Part One.
Here are a couple of write-ups from The Dance Enthusiast on the panel discussion on dance criticism two weeks ago that I took part in.
I was going to wait for the video to go up online so I could embed that or link to it but it hasn’t gone up yet. I usually take notes at such things, but since I was on the panel didn’t — and I feel lost doing a write-up without my notes.
Anyway, these two write-ups are good. ...
