New York, New York, a wonderful clown!

At the New York Clown Theater Festival, Classes on How to Be Silly
by April Dembosky, The New York Times, September 11, 2008

NEA chair announces resignation

Dana Gioia to Step Down as Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts
by Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, September 11, 2008

The Turning World (51)

ABC News: American Performer: Israeli Security Made Me Dance
by Josef Federman, Associated Press, September 9, 2008

Healing the spirit through dance

Healing the spirit through dance
a review of Dunya Dianne McPherson's Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh

by Ruth Vincent, Chelsea Now, September 5-11, 2008

And here's a link to my Body and Soul conversation with Dunya.

CORD Conference: Dance Studies and Global Feminisms

41st Annual CORD Conference | Congress on Research in Dance

Dance Studies and Global Feminisms
41st Annual CORD Conference
November 14 - 16, 2008

Hollins University (Roanoke, Virginia)

Conference Co-Chairs

Donna Faye Burchfield, Hollins University
Ananya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conference Keynote Speaker: Trinh T. Minh-ha

The market forces of globalization tend to flatten the uneven terrain of spaces and map out the world in terms of flow of capital. How, within this context, can we create a resistant feminine space of Dance Studies? What would that space look like, how would it feel? How are feminist concerns constructed within dance studies, and how are they negotiated? How have global feminisms emerged, and what can they do? What can dance studies do in relation to the space of a global feminine? How has "the feminine" survived asymmetrical tensions of market forces? The 41st Annual CORD Conference will include three days of presentations, roundtables and lecture-demonstrations to address these questions.

The conference will coincide with a reading by acclaimed writer and novelist Jamaica Kincaid.

Ratmansky joins ABT

Bolshoi Ballet’s Loss Is American Ballet Theater’s Gain
by Daniel J. Wakin and Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, September 10, 2008

The Turning World (50)

Michael Palin for President