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Summer Festival Intern Program at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Publishing: Where are the women?

The Lack of Female Bylines in Magazines is Old News

Want more women writers in magazines? Get more female editors.

by Katha Pollitt, Slate Magazine, February 11, 2011

Flamenco yesterday, today and tomorrow

Dance Magazine Editor-in-Chief Wendy Perron and I both have our say on the entertaining Flamenco Hoy by Carlos Saura (New York City Center). Check out our reviews here.

What happens, what remains

Click here for my Dance Magazine review of Walter Dundervill's Aesthetic Destiny 1: Candy Mountain (Dance Theater Workshop).

Apply now for DTW's new "Writing on Dance"

I'm honored to be facilitating a new session of Writing on Dance (Spring 2011) for Dance Theater Workshop, beginning March 30!

This series will be an informal, supportive lab for discovery of your self as writer; for lively engagement with art; for celebration of your unique voice and creative response.

We share this lab with others who are also questioning: Why do I write? Who am I as perceiver and witness of art? How do I relate and respond to dance? Why write about dance? What is my role? Who is my reader? What is the larger context in which art is made, presented, experienced and interpreted for the public? How can I, as writer, make something new, meaningful and useful in this time of disruption and transition?

Please note: Although I will encourage participants to attend, contemplate and write about dance performances during this course, our work will not focus on the nuts and bolts of dance criticism or dance journalism, and our group need not be limited to students who wish to pursue a professional career in dance criticism.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 11

For Writing on Dance's complete schedule and application details, please click here.

What you don't see

Presented by The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums perform BARK, an “Unseen Dance” for blindfolded audiences. Dancers reveal themselves and the space through sound, scent, touch, temperature and air currents. The audience is placed within the action and periodically moved, causing shifts in their relationship to the environment, the performers, and one another. Based on non-visual perception, this is the first dance form fully accessible to the visually impaired.

For sighted and visually impaired audiences. This program is not suitable for children.

All New York Public Library programs are free of charge. Register by phone or in person.

March 5 at 2pm
The Richmondtown Library
200 Clarke Avenue (at Amber Street), Staten Island, NY

718-668-0413

March 12 at 2pm
Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
40 West 20th Street, Manhattan New York, NY
212-206-5400

March 19 at 2pm
Webster Library
1465 York Avenue (near East 78th Street), Manhattan
212-288-5049

March 26 at 2pm
115th St Library
203 West 115th Street, Manhattan
212-666-9393

Dana Salisbury is an independent artist/choreographer who creates events and performances for blindfolded audiences highlighting non-visual perception. Her work has two related branches—the dance company, Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums, which creates "Unseen Dances" and Dark Dining Projects which offers sensory feasts for blindfolded audiences. Her work has been performed in a wide variety of settings- theaters, cultural venues, restaurants, festivals, and conferences examining the intersection of arts and science. Learn more here. 

For additional information, email Dana Salisbury,  or call 917-686-7474.

An interview with painter Sibel Kocabasi

Sibel Kocabasi

interviewed by Barbara Ann Levy

BALGallery.com