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Back to the Places I’ve Left

  • Ellen O'Connell Whittet
  • May 1, 2017
“No one knows how to handle it,” I tell her, but I can see she’s angry and I’m speaking into the wind.
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Dancing about Writing

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 8, 2016
At the Guardian, Zadie Smith writes about why dance is important for her and for her writing: The connection between writing and dancing has been much on my mind recently: it’s a channel…
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Unafraid and Proud

  • Liz Wood
  • June 16, 2016
In the wake of the Orlando tragedy, questions have been raised about the ability of the gay dance scene to overcome the fear bred by such senseless, yet targeted, violence.…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • May 6, 2016
Some people write about dystopian futures, or reimagined folktales, or ghosts, or science fiction. Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of the upcoming story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is…
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The Body Does Not Lie

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • March 21, 2016
For Guernica, Jen Karetnick interviews dancer Natica Angilly about dance poetry, its meaning, and how she became involved in it: Natural, developed, and studied efforts to share our singular and group…
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Just Dance

  • Stephanie Bento
  • March 9, 2016
Well, that’s the point of being alone—it’s not anything to do with you. It’s about being something in someone else’s life, and no one ever knows the difference, or the…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Sari Wilson

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 17, 2016
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Sari Wilson about her new book Girl Through Glass, the demands of the dance world, and New York City as a character.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thunder, Thighs

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • September 19, 2015
Over one third of the women in my survey had been called “Thunder Thighs” at some point in their life. Many were still haunted by this. None of them interpreted “thunder” to mean “power.
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Interview with Keren Katz

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • January 29, 2014
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7 to…
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The Second Art Form

  • Amanda LeDuc
  • September 3, 2013
One summer day in 1985, a doctor calls my mother and tells her that there is empty space where parts of my brain should be. “I don’t understand it,” he…
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The New York Comics Symposium: Interview with R. Sikoryak & Kriota Willberg

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • August 2, 2013
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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Pina Bausch

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • June 30, 2009
Dancer, choreographer, and innovator Pina Bausch has passed away. (via @R_Nash)
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