I originally wrote this piece for the Dance/NYC Junior Committee member blog, but I thought I’d share it here as well. Feel free to post your own resolutions in the comments – I’m looking forward to hearing other strategies and goals for improving the dance field in 2016. ********** Happy New Year, readers! As we…
Dear Readers, I launched Point of Contact on October 16, 2013 as a way to supplement and practice my dance writing for a course I was taking in Barnard College’s Dance Department. My original goal was to create a virtual record of my experience as an audience member, but after seeing hundreds of performances, work-in-progress showings,…
I’m not a fan of click-through journalism, but in this case, the title I’ve given this post is EXACTLY what it means. Here are two links that dancers and choreographers should take a few minutes to look at today – both projects are trying to capture a snapshot of the dance community (and that’s not…
Welcome to Point of Contact, my first foray into online dance criticism and commentary. The title of this site comes from a term used in Contact Improvisation, a dance form developed in the early 1970s by Steve Paxton that utilizes shared weight between bodies as the impetus for exploring movement. A “point of contact” is…
Point of Contact 