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Annie Wilson

The live-action version of every Judd Apatow movie: Still Standing You

I want to tell people to stop laughing, you’re only encouraging them.
September 10, 2015
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How Do You Frame a Well-Made Dance?

Barr's piece could very well be about the laundry pile that never diminishes...the breath that insists on being taken every couple seconds without fail.
June 3, 2014
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Twenty Six Ways to Reinvigorate Your Dance Writing

Critic Brian Schaefer goads thINKingDANCE, and all dance writers, to change it up, look into pop culture and try new forms.
March 1, 2014
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Life and Times: I love it, I hate it

The directors interviewed their sound designer, asking her to tell her life story. Then they theatricalized it.
September 12, 2013
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Is North American Dance In Crisis?

Yes, yes it is, we say. As dance artists, critics, scholars, professors and enthusiasts, we wring our hands at the dying art form.
September 8, 2013
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On being in the presence of Deborah Hay, and the history of events surrounding that experience in the studio.

Annie Wilson interrogates just what it means to practice dance as if it were/as if it is central to the practice of a waking life.
March 1, 2013
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Dear Megan Mazarick and Mason Rosenthal of "Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals,"

It takes a huge consciousness to live in the structure of a performance as opposed to clinging to it.
September 22, 2012
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Ceci n’est pas David

How do our fleshy selves coexist with our digital selves?
September 16, 2012
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