For the Brooklyn Rail, I explored danced interpretations of visual art, with a particular focus on Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance‘s recent…
The Allure of Crystals in Art Across Time
“We mine, carve, and covet them — and now edify them with pedestals and wall captions.” In my first piece…
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Feminist Reading of “A Streetcar Named Desire” Comes to Nashville
Read all about it in my latest article for Pointe magazine!
The Clockwork Job Thief
Ornamental yet functional, mobile yet fragile—do these aesthetic humanoids belong more to the realm of novelty or art?
The National Museum of Mathematics’ Evening Salon
Attention ballerinas: Newton’s Third Law will give you higher legs and jumps with fewer injuries. Read my latest for Pointe magazine on the intersections between math, music and dance as learned at the National Museum of Mathematics’ Quadrivium evening salon!
A Brief History of Sketchbooks
If you trace the history of sketchbooks, you’ll find that although paper wasn’t always bound up into leather Moleskines, sketchbook contents haven’t…
Hollow Haunting on my Getaway Artist Fellowship
The west has its canyons and mountain ranges, the great plains their manifest destiny-invoking open prairies. One might think the…
“RED” Review: Chinese Dance Piece Brilliantly Cross-sects the Cultural Revolution and Its Lasting Effects
Thin women arching backs, kicking legs, and pointing feet—“It truly had nothing to do with the revolution,” says Dr. Gang…
#BalletFail Roundup
For Pointe‘s October/November issue, I spoke with four dancers on their biggest onstage fails. Some musical instruments may have been harmed…
Jennifer Grace: Tulsa Ballet’s Rising Soloist Is True To Her Name
My cover story on Tulsa Ballet dancer Jennifer Grace is out! Spoiler alert: yes, she is graceful. Read it now in Pointe’s August/September…