Book Reviews

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
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Stories From The Middle

Jennifer Passios

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

Photo: James R. Perales
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Locating the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Amy Schofield

Reynoso gestures toward decolonial and pluriversal possibilities of mestizaje.

Photo: Robbie Sweeny
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Unveiling the Apparatus

Even when Mattingly’s own choreographic apparatus may seem contentious, her viewpoint is definitely worth reading.

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Book Review: A Magic Carpet Ride Through Ballet’s History of Orientalism

Catja Christensen

Banishing Orientalism is an intellectually stimulating, essential read.

Photo: Annie-B Parson
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Threading through life and choreography with Annie-B Parson

Kristen Shahverdian

What is in choreography and how does it exist around us?

Photo: Noel Bégin/Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
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Book Review: Getting Down to the Roots of Jazz Dance

Darcy Grabenstein

The Africanist aesthetic as essential to jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography.

Photo: Stephan Koplowitz
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Koplowitz’s On Site: A Book Review and Conversation

Jonathan Stein

“Listening to the site leads to acts of discovery-” Debra Loewen

Notation: Gabe Valentine
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Embodying Marks: Dance Notation and Scores in Conversation

Emilee Lord

A conversation on motif description and scores with Emilee Lord and Brendan McCall.

Photo: Kara Nepomuceno
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Loose ribbons

Kara Nepomuceno

A “more socially just future” reaches beyond drastic changes in ballet’s foundations.

Cartoonist: Jordan Granger
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Chronicling Passion for a Life of Dance

Kristen Shahverdian

The book utilizes stream of consciousness writing, photographs, graphics, and drawings to share Jaye Allison’s viewpoint on a