My DCA conference appearance next Saturday

I will be making my first-ever Skype video call appearance (!!!) at the 2011 Dance Critics Association Conference in Seattle, June 9-12.

On Saturday, June 11, I'm joining Theodore "Tedd" Bale and Marcie Sillman and moderator Marcia B. Siegel (dance critic of The Boston Phoenix) for Critical Practice Now--a roundtable discussion on the continual shift in dance writing practice.

For information on DCA and its conference, click here or email.

Kirschner on dance's future: Lead, follow or get out of the way

10 Things the Dance Field Should Be Talking About in 2011
Marc Kirschner, TenduTV, January 6, 2010

Apollinaire Scherr to speak on dance criticism

Critic, journalist and blogger Apollinaire Scherr invites you to her keynote address at the Dance Critics Association Conference this Friday, July 16 (9:30am) at NYU Kimmel Center at 60 Washington Square South. Get directions and more nifty details at Scherr's own blog post here.

Scherr's topic?

"How to write criticism that leaves room for dance's future"

She promises answers that are "provisional, hopeful and possibly cause for debate and fuming."

So, if you're up for some fuming, but you're not registered for the DCA conference, Scherr has a deal for you. You can get into the keynote event for a mere $8. But you absolutely must click here to pay in advance, okay?

BTW, if you do go to the DCA conference, you'll find me--your friendly grassroots blogger--on a panel at Dance Theater Workshop with Eiko of Eiko & Koma, writer Valerie Gladstone, presenter Baraka Sele, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Woman, and writer Lori Ortiz (moderator). We're talking Cultural Exchange in 2010. I hope to see you there!