A Look Back at 2011

Except for the occasional pause for airing out, 2011 was busy and full of keepsake dances from the heart & mind: Heart Song; Pie, Picket Fences & Purgatory; Shelter; and Itty Bitty Nitty Gritty. Finishing the year with four new works and two new film shorts...
A Piece of Shelter

A Piece of Shelter

On the night of July 10th, in a theater tucked away in Long Island City, Queens, a young filmmaker opened her lens to an evening of unknowns. The invitation I made to Amelia Golden was to come and shoot an evening of making a new dance.  That’s a wide-open opportunity...
“Itty Bitty Nitty Gritty”

“Itty Bitty Nitty Gritty”

In the dog days of summer, there has to be a reason to want to be in the heat! Last Thursday night, August 4th, in New London, CT, was ACD’s reason to kick up their heels in the blazing sun and join the masses in their sweat and enthusiasm for dance! CT Ballet was...
Shelter: A Cosmic Experience

Shelter: A Cosmic Experience

Maslow would be proud of me if he knew that I was highlighting the lowest level of his pyramid in a dance! If we didn’t have the handicap of always focusing on how to afford food and shelter, just think how much more we could do for the world. In this dance I used an...
Pie, Picket Fences & Purgatory

Pie, Picket Fences & Purgatory

Though I wasn’t called in life to drive oxen, I have occasionally been driven to madness. There’s a narrow chasm between iconic Americana and our deeper desires toward temptation and deviance.  I think I’ll live, but someone should really examine me after this. “As...