A wonderful afternoon with Barnard's Dance in the City!

An afternoon well spent at Barnard College
with Sydnie Mosley and her lucky group of Dance in the City students!
(photo: Christine Jowers)

Many thanks to the resourceful artist/educator Sydnie Mosley and all the students from her Dance in the City 2015 summer program at Barnard College for a warm welcome, interesting questions and discussion of issues and strategies in dance criticism and advocacy with my treasured colleagues, Marissa Perel and Christine Jowers!

I wish the students continued fun and revelations as they complete their stay in New York City. Please feel free to keep in touch!

For information on Dance in the City's multifaceted residency program, click here.

Visiting Sydnie Mosley's Dance in the City

I've just finished up another delightful visit with the talented dancer/dance writer Siobhan Burke, choreographer-educator Sydnie L. Mosley, and Mosley's roomful of bright students from Dance in the City, a pre-college summer program at Barnard College.

L to r: Siobhan Burke, Sydnie L. Mosley and yours truly

We discussed ideas from a Deborah Jowitt essay on descriptive writing in criticism and traded responses to the current Pilobolus run at the Joyce. Answering questions about dance criticism helps me to focus on what I most value as a writer (and a reader) and what strategies work best in the often tricky work of writing about this amazing art form.

Thanks, again, to Sydnie for her always gracious welcome, to Siobhan (my former review editor at Dance Magazine) for being the perfect partner in crime, and to this summer's students for their keen interest and energy. Enjoy the rest of your stay in New York!