Tapilosophy: A dialogue on tap

(Photos: Jane Goldberg; Greg Hines, photo by Greg Gorman)

With her new blog series, Tapilosophy: Gregory Hines to Jane, tap's champion, Jane Goldberg opens her trove of email correspondence with the late, great Gregory Hines. Goldberg describes Tapilosophy as "emails to be read, inspired by, and discussed in your tap lives as you travel the world."

So, was Greg Hines a PC guy? Or a Mac guy?

Definitely a Mac guy, and he had people figured out PC or Mac-wise, too. Like the beloved tap master Buster Brown:

Buster was a Mac. Very attractive to look at and to spend time with. Easy to know. Rarely crashed. Displayed a very intuitiveness about his dancing and made it look easy. Anyone who got to spend time with him loved Buster. Oh yes….. Buster was a Mac.

I grieve that we do not have Hines's voice in the mix today. And certainly his tapping feet.

Thanks for bringing us Tapilosophy, Janie!

Because it's the...Dancer's Turn!

Let me now introduce you to something brand new in dance writing and to my colleagues at Dancer's Turn--the group blog devoted to long-form profiles of dance artists. Check it out here, and subscribe so you'll never miss a post!

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Writers are welcome to submit queries and proposals. Click for the Dancer's Turn Call for Submissions.

InfiniteBody's new look

Every now and then, it's fun to break out a new look. Let me know what you think!

The clutter-y sidebar stuff is gone, but you'll find "lost" items like InfiniteBody's archives, labels, blog links, subscription button and a link to my Google profile page by mousing over the tastefully tucked-away panel on the right side of your screen.

I hope you'll continue to enjoy reading InfiniteBody as much as I enjoy writing it. Talk it up to your friends and colleagues. The more readers, the merrier! Thanks!

The urgent A.O. herself!

The resourceful Sarah A.O. Rosner gets profiled by New York Live Arts blog here.

Wonder remains: Kraus at Merce Fair

A Fair for Merce
by Lisa Kraus, Writing My Dancing Life, August 30, 2011

Find me...

Me (photo by Me)

...on my Web site

...on InfiniteBody

...on hummingwitch

...on starlight-sensitive

...on Facebook (Eva Yaa Asantewaa)

...on Facebook (Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Journalist)

...on Twitter

...on tumblr (Eva, naturally)

...on Warren Adam's Home4Dance
(A new professional/social site for the dance community. Check it out!)

...on LinkedIn (though not very active there)

...and last, but not least, on Google+. (No link. You'll just have to...find me.)

Yes, I really am all over the place. It's fun, surprisingly easy and, as the whip-smart Sarah A.O. Rosner once said, "We're just wired this way."

Rosner, a choreographer and new media activist, is much younger than I am, but I seem to be wired in a similar way and curious about it all. And, yes, in the CyberAge, it really does make a difference.

I especially love it when someone comes up to me at a dance event and says, "I've never met you, but I feel like I know you!" :-D

See you around town (and the 'Net), folks!

danceINTUIT blog launches!

Yesterday, I told you about a new quarterly, The Dance JOT, launched by students from my Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts' Writing on Dance series as one of their final projects. They have also created a fresh new dance blog, and I'm delighted to announce that danceINTUIT is live! Go visit, subscribe, enjoy!

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

Space between known and unknown

ABSTRACTION: The Empty Space

by Ann Moradian, Perspectives in Motion, January 24, 2010

Ann is a dancer, mover, creator, writer, director, collaborator and teacher who has "a deep respect for dance tradition and at the same time delves courageously into the experimental" (so says Jim May, from Sokolow). The director of Perspectives In Motion, she was based in New York from 1981-1996, in India for 6 years after that and currently in Paris, where she is working in collaboration with visual artist Nannette Bertschy.

Perron--and others--on choreographers blogging

More on the Choreographic Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog

by Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine, August 2, 2010