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The bright cover of Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography asserts itself boldly on a red-orange background. The title makes a right-angle inside an offset rectangle of white and black lines that don’t quite meet at the corners. “Artists on Creative Administration” sits along the top and right of the rectangle with the rest of the title occupying the left and bottom. The text “Tonya Lockyer, Editor” appears just beneath the catawampus rectangle.
Cover Image courtesy of NCC Akron
  • Book Reviews

Stories From The Middle

Jennifer Passios

Humor, joy, hope, tough truths, and pragmatism give this book its staying power.

A group of dancers all dressed in white are clumped together in front of a blue backdrop that has 2 pillars running down them. The dancer in the front is kneeling with her arms lifted to the side with bent elbows and her hands in fists. Behind her are two couples leaning away from center and each has one arm raised with a bent elbow and hand in a fist. All of the dancers look either down or out, with a serious and contemplative expression.
Photo: PC Nir Arieli
  • Reviews

Still/Here: 30 Years Later

Kristen Shahverdian

Care, strength, and presence permeates the remount of Still/Here.

Yuki Ishiguro holds two glowing sticks in either hand. Wearing a loose-flowing silk top, he stands in power, pointing one stick to the ground, the other held above his head.
Photo: Yuma Hayashi
  • Reviews

Different Speeds of (Moon)Light

Megan Mizanty

Bucks County’s dance scene glows.

A woman is standing profile, mid-step, in a black shirt and white pants. Her arms are outstretched, palms face up. In the background audience members are seated on chairs and on the ground.
Photo: Jano Cohen
  • Reviews

An International Assortment

Ella-Gabriel Mason

The TRILATERAL Dance Exchange offers up a sampling of artistic research from home and abroad.

The image features a powerful duet from Complexions Contemporary Ballet. A male dancer, dressed in shimmering green pants, supports a female dancer in a gold costume as she elegantly balances on his shoulders, demonstrating strength, balance, and grace in their contemporary ballet movement.
Photo: Courtesy of Complexions
  • Reviews

Echoes of Tradition

Ziying Cui

Complexions reimagines the contemporary ballet landscape.

Two women standing in a spotlit space, each with a yellow top and white pants with the taller, Zoe Rabinowitz, gazing aside, embraces and holds Mary McGrath to her chest, one arm around her blond hair, the other around her back, her face buried in Rabinowitz’s chest.
Photo: Sara Radin
  • Reviews

Two tD Writers + Two Fringe Shows — A Reflective Conversation

Jonathan Stein

Dance and theater from artists/daughters address their mothers’ dementia.

three people wearing brightly colored clothing and blue lipstick hover closely together, looking off into the distance. they are leaning over miniature figurines of a desktop computer, a black and white checkered floor, a globe and other tiny toy objects.
Photo: Irina Varina
  • Reviews

Celebrating Nineties Nostalgia in ‘Future Jam ‘94’

Caitlin Green

At a séance sleepover party, they summon the spirit of Google from the future.

Yellow lights and gauzes of yellows and pinks set the stage. Seen from behind in silhouette, a belly dancer looks over her left shoulder and down. Her hands are raised slightly above her head.
Photo courtesy of the artist
  • Reviews

Monologue more than dance

Emilee Lord

A film about a woman's power unwinding, written from multiple women’s voices.

A white gay man lies on the floor, almost fully naked. A Black gay man dressed in a tropical dress with a hair scarf, sunglasses, and a floral bag stands next to them, extending their arms as if asking, “What’s the matter?”
Photo: Paule Turner and Dane Eissler
  • Reviews

My Pussy Hurts Too

Anito Gavino

Crumpled tissues on the floor, half-emptied soda bottles, and a raggedy wig tossed on the floor tell stories.

A woman in bright purple and pink short sleeves with gold trim, kneels, her left knee on the floor, the other obscured by the pleats of fabric between the legs of her costume. She rests her right hand, palm drawn with henna, gently against her cheek, seeming to hold that arm up with her left hand. Her face is tilted up, her eyes closed, and her mouth drawn tight as though pleading or sorrowful.
Image by Kutty Photography.
  • Reviews

Classical Storytelling

Emilee Lord

It’s all in the centuries old details.