National Dance Report

In an effort to get an accurate portrait of the national dance scene, Critical Correspondence has begun contacting various artists and arts organizers in cities around the country to tell their stories. Too often, we don’t have a sense of what is going on at the local level on the national scene.

Laura Arrington in conversation with Milka Djordjevich

Choreographer and CC Editor, Milka Djordjevich speaks with San Francisco-based choreographer Laura Arrington, to confer about the creative process for her newest work Wag. The work premiere’s as a part of a shared evening with Bay Area artist Jesse Hewit. Their shared evening, The Dog Show, takes place at Z Space in San Francisco, December 8-11, 2011. The artists discuss making dance on both coasts, the value of an audience, and how language breeds expectations.

Jesse Hewit in conversation with Milka Djordjevich

Choreographer and CC Editor, Milka Djordjevich, sits down with San Francisco-based artist and performer, Jesse Hewit, before his upcoming performance, Freedom, as a part of a shared evening with fellow Bay Area choreographer, Laura Arrington. The shared evening, The Dog Show, takes place at Z Space in San Francisco, December 8-11, 2011. They discuss Hewit’s creative process, dance making insecurities, and the many meanings collaboration takes in artistic development.

Elsewhere: Daniel McCusker in conversation with Ana Isabel Keilson and Kinebago’s Sara Smith

Critical Correspondence is pleased to share with you an excerpt of a conversation from Kinebago, a new online magazine created to foster the documentation and contemplation of dance and movement-based practices in New England. Here, Boston-based choreographer Daniel McCusker talks with Kinebago founder Sara Smith and his former student, the New York-based choreographer and scholar Ana Isabel Keilson. For the complete interview and more discourse on dance in New England, please visit Kinebago.

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  • 6.2.11

Elsewhere: Robert Avila on the burgeoning San Francisco Queer Performance Scene in the SF Bay Guardian

The editors at Critical Correspondence direct you to an article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian by Robert Avila about the current happenings of “insider/outsider” artists in the San Francisco performance scene. Read the article here.

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  • 5.3.11

Rachel Damon in conversation with Tess Dworman

Chicago choreographer, Rachel Damon speaks with Chicago expatriate, Tess Dworman about Rachel’s experience growing up in the Chicago dance community. Rachel’s company, the Synapse Art Collective recently performed her work at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis as part of the Tandem Dance Series.

Melanie Rí­os Glaser in conversation with Jmy Leary

Jmy Leary, who moved from New York City to Los Angeles in Fall 2009, talks with Melanie Rios Glaser about her work as the Executive & Artistic Director of The Wooden Floor.

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad in conversation with Laurie Van Wieren

Minneapolis choreographer Laurie Van Wieren speaks with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad of the BodyCartography Project, also Minneapolis-based. Olive and Otto discuss Mammal, their commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet, and Symptom, their newest work which will be performed at P.S. 122 January 5-12. While they are in New York City, they will be conducting an audition on January 6.

David Hurwith in conversation with Ursula Eagly

Ursula Eagly talks on the phone with David Hurwith, a choreographer who works in New York City and Western Massachusetts. Hurwith’s new work, Gasp, I’m Home! premieres at Ritual & Research in Worthington, MA on December 2-5, 2010.