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Carolyn Merritt
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Other Lives
If a voice inside your head told you to follow someone, would you?
June 5, 2017
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Extreme Physicality: An Interview with Abby Zbikowski
"I’m going back to these really primal needs to move—I learned to survive through the practice of dance."
May 10, 2017
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Vive Carnaval
Anticipating carnaval, consummate ritual of inversion, a month into the bizarro reality of a Trump presidency.
February 27, 2017
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Every Woman
Half off, your shirt smothers your head...and you are faceless, everywoman, and an uncanny double of Abu Ghraib prisoners.
September 20, 2016
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A Newcomer's Guide to Watching Dance. You're already an expert. Yes. Really. You.
Reprinted from TDF Stages.
September 5, 2016
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Arts Writing Bootcamp: The National Critics Institute
Perhaps the best criteria for arts writers or critics is curiosity.
August 21, 2016
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Life Lines: Ally at the Fabric Workshop and Museum
There is the biography... And there is the universal—the multitudes of a single life, the luck of longevity.
June 15, 2016
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Tierra
It felt right to perform tango, a product of immigration, in the lead-up to Pope Francis’s speech on immigration during his recent visit to Philadelphia.
October 18, 2015
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