I can’t believe it’s 2020. (I actually just typed “I can’t believe it’s 1010,” which must be some kind of slip, Freudian or otherwise.) Change is the only constant. This January, loveDANCEmore says farewell to Amy Falls, who has diligently kept the reviews flowing for most of the last five years as editor extraordinaire. THANK YOU AMY! Amy has also worked administratively for Ballet West, as well as dancing for Municipal Ballet Co. and in the work of Ashley Anderson among many other local choreographers. She kept Mudson alive during the transition out of the Masonic Temple after the Masons cruelly raised the rent on us for no good reason. We wish Amy the best as she pursues an MBA. Hopefully she’ll continue to write the odd review and perform around town.
Amy Falls, right, with Katherine Adler, in Adler’s work from Walt, photo by Will Thompson
Future press inquiries and requests for review opportunities should go to sam@lovedancemore.org or you can call 801.915.0625.
Which brings me to a plea. So much has already happened this year and in the transition, I seem to have missed Body Logic’s show last weekend. Did anyone go who might like to share their impressions?
I did make it to one of the many events that comprised Dancing Around Race: Whiteness in Higher Education, a symposium on race, dance and academia put together by U of U professor and loveDANCEmore contributor Kate Mattingly.
In a panel called Decolonizing Methodologies, Maile Arvin, Tria Blu Wakpa, Charles Sepulveda discussed their work. Arvin had just published Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania. Blu Wakpa talked about an article she presented in Dance Research Journal and Sepulveda spoke about his contribution to a volume entitled Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education and Society. Two of the three teach here at the U.
Decolonizing Methodologies, photo by Samuel Hanson
If you participated in Dancing Around Race we’d love to publish your thoughts, reflections, responses, diary entries, poems written in response to these important conversations. Additionally, If anyone is interested in writing a review of one of the books mentioned above, we’d be happy to pay for the book in exchange for you writing about It for the digest…
What else do you want from loveDANCEmore? We are trying to figure out where the organization is headed. Mudson is currently on hold as we reassess its viability. Do you miss it? Is there some other service we could offer the dance community that would mean more? Do you read the reviews? Does the print journal reach you? Ask not what you can do for loveDANCEmore, but what loveDANCEmore can do for you!
September of 2020 will mark ten years of loveDANCEmore. We need your input to help us figure out what the next ten years are going to be all about! Write to Sam or Ashley.
— Samuel Hanson, editor