by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal | photo credit Mike Hurwitz I’ve never liked the term, “starving artist.” It implies failure, a lack of purpose, and disconnection. To me, calling someone who is pursuing […]
By Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal This past Sunday, October 20, 2019, Annielliele Gavino presented Patawali, an immersive evening performance, at the Asian Arts Initiative. The evening began in the downstairs gallery, where the […]
On September 21, 2019, I attended Irene Reinke’s Fringe production, Candle, Sword, and Fan at the Plastic Club. The central concept of the performance, a three-part psychological exploration of emotional growth conveyed through Tai Chi […]
By Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal | photo credit: Bob Sweeney On September 15, 2019, Maddie Rabin presented the third and final showing of her Fringe Festival production, Sprout: A Full-Length Not-a-Ballet, at the […]
by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal This past Sunday, April 28, 2019, marked the close of Koresh Dance Company’s world premiere of artistic director Ronen Koresh’s most recent artistic triumph, La Danse. Not a […]
by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal On Saturday, April 4, Elba Hevia y Vaca, artistic director and founder of Pasión y Arte, presented for the exhibition of Marcando el terreno (“marking the terrain”), her […]
by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal | Photo by Johanna Austin The last thing I expected during The Lightning Rod Special’s performance of The Appointment at Fringe Arts on Thursday, March 21, 2019, was […]
by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal After rehearsing and performing intensively for two months, I felt the need to respond to what struck me as an exceptionally harsh and unfair review of Unhinged, a […]
by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal On Friday, June 28th, Jenna Silva and Company presented EXERTION, an evening in the life of a dance artist at Mascher Space Co-op in Philadelphia. Silva and her […]
by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal | photo credit Lindsay Browning On Friday, May 18, Katherine Kiefer Stark, artistic director of The Naked Stark presented a new, full-length work, Visible Structures, at the Mascher […]
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