Getting to Know the Dancer Within

Eichenbaum, Rose.
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008
In every performance talk-back I’ve witnessed, participated in, or facilitated, any audience of any age wants to know the same things: (1) How old were you when you started to dance? (2) How old are you now? (3) Are any of you [...]

A Study in Contrasts

Jones, Bill T.
Elizabeth Zimmer and Susan Quasha, eds.
Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1989
Dance is often a study in contrasts: finding rhythm in silence, movement defined by stillness, the literal body creating an abstract narrative. The book Body Against Body: The Dance [...]

Photography as Oral Tradition: Jeff Wall’s Narrative Tableaus

Newman, Michael
Jeff Wall: Works and Collected Writings
Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2007
About a year ago I found myself standing in front of one of Jeff Wall’s large format photos at a retrospective exhibit of his work at MOMA in NYC. I was entranced. With each photo a new question arose, or rather a multitude of questions. What was [...]