Months ago, my colleague Sara inspired this rumination on the collective similarities and differences of various art forms. As I read her last blog posts, I wondered, what is the distinction between performers across mediums? How do the performances of dancers, actors or musicians differ? I like to imagine that [...]
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I am from Japan. I don’t have any family here in the US. Most of my family members and friends- including my parents, my brother and sister- have never lived abroad.
I’ve lived here for seven years, and I used to think my home is so far. It is as far [...]
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How wonderful is it that we can go to a class and stretch out our stress, or turn on music in the living room and shake out our anger? To me, this is movement therapy. Turning off our voice and going inside of our bodies enables us to connect to a wellspring of information that [...]
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It has often occurred to me that the combination of being heavily enamored with both dance and writing is seemingly incongruent. One art form is physical, (usually) non-verbal and requires collaboration with others to some degree; the latter is fairly sedentary and certainly solitary.
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About a month ago, Kelli Youngman- a senior at the Fordham/Ailey BFA Program in New York City- performed a solo that we choreographed in collaboration with the dancers of YSDT for the Fordham/Ailey BFA Senior Solo Concert. This was my fifth senior solo commissioned by students of the Ailey/Fordham BFA [...]
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As an artist, I feel both inspired and informed by the everyday occurrence. Perhaps you’ve heard this before. I do believe we are all artists. Some are more or less encouraged, others are more or less defiant, insistent, or confident. At any rate, we all have stories to tell and we are all [...]
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The Huffington Post
Read Jennifer Edward's feature about YSDT's newest work, Bound, featuring interviews by Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz.
