As the world faces COVID-19, and we all spend time inside contemplating our human fragility, loveDANCEmore intends to do what little things we can do, bringing more dance journalism and writing out of the archive for you to read in the next few weeks. We’ll also be prodding the dance economy (a tiny bit) by commissioning some extra new work by some of our veteran writers.
As always, if you have an idea about something you’d like to get paid to write about, email me at sam@lovedancemore.org. The reviews side of the page may go quiet for a bit, but we will have plenty going on over here on the digest side. (We also still have a few unedited reviews in the pipeline from before school closed and public gatherings stopped happening.)
Emmett Wilson at the last Mudson, photo by Emma Hanson
Here are some local and nation online dance classes you can take to keep training:
Repertory Dance Theater has some online resources for professionals and students here.
Ririe-Woodbury too!
Utah Cultural Alliance has some advocacy materials and a survey for arts groups here.
This is a great reference for classical dance.
Movement Research is offering this online Feldenkrais class.
Jess Young, who we featured here, is holding intermittent online classes, email her at jessiealexandra@gmail.com.
Also don’t forget to take our class survey, which closes at the end of this month.
There are all kinds of performances happening online this week.
For example: AUNTS, a dance platform in NYC, is doing a chain-curation of online performances called AUNTS: WPA micro stimulus which started last night. (There’s another one tonight!) If you know of anything like that happening here or elsewhere, email me and I’ll consider adding it to our calendar for review.
I’ll leave you with my fifty word, run-on sentence review of one of the first of these pieces on @aunts_here on instagram:
Thank you, Benjamin Akio Kimitch, I enjoyed watching you and your fan dancing on a roof on March 21, from three thousand or so miles away, temporarily forgetting about the pandemic while for the first time noticing how unlike the wind the sound of wind in a cell phone is.
—Samuel Hanson, editor