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Interview with Samar Haddad King, Critical Correspondence

katie — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:56:20 +0000

Dancing in Palestine: Samar Haddad King in conversation with Katie Baer Schetlick

Katie Schetlick interviews Samar Haddad King, artistic director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, a New York dance theater company. They discuss King’s exploration of Palestinian identity and family history in her new work, which is being made with a group of dancers at [...]

Review: (Bound)

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:43:23 +0000

Explore Dance

Written By: Sarah J. Hart

Three walls, pushed into different positions by restless dancers, become the boundaries within, on, and against which the dramas of this piece take place. At times they represent the walls of buildings, other times they are the barrier [...]

Honoring the Process

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:30:26 +0000

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 [...]

Pre-order your tickets for Bound and get $5 off!

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:17:24 +0000

Check out our friends at Lintcoat and YSDT’s mention about Bound!

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We’ve reached 40% of our funding goal in the first 12 days of our Kickstarter campaign! Thanks so [...]

Bound in Process: Moving within Walls

zoe — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:18:31 +0000

Recently it feels like we have taken on three new company members; all of who are heavy, blind, and with little sense of direction. It doesn’t sound like the greatest asset for a dance company known for their athletic movement style in the process of creating a new piece; and yet they are [...]

Bound in process: unraveling the narrative

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:39:28 +0000

Every time we rehearse Bound, I uncover more layers of this girl I am trying to bring to life. It’s like chipping away at a person who I am both creating and discovering, as though she exists both in my mind and separately from my mind, as an eternal figure in this perpetual drama. [...]

Honoring the Individual: Yukari abroad

zoe — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:36:00 +0000

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 [...]

Honoring the Individual: Movement as Therapy

zoe — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:00:16 +0000

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 [...]

Honoring the Individual Character

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:56:37 +0000

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.

Moving in Palestine: Katie’s return expedition

katie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:35:21 +0000

I sit here waiting in Jordan for my flight that departs in five hours. Waiting, waiting-the perfect time for reflection if you don’t let too much expectation get in your way. It is a time to let other things soar despite feeling static. So, I just sit here and let my thoughts and [...]