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George Balanchine for President! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
George Balanchine (c) Martha Swope I'm relishing my time with Dance in America, Mindy Aloff's important new anthology from the Library of America. It's a volume that one can roam around in and I've…
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Maureen Owen & Barbara Henning on the Road (Terence Winch)
Watch out, Mobile, Austin, San Diego, and any number of other cities in the U.S.: Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning are on the road and heading your way, armed with the power of…
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Next Line, Please: Tributes to May in January and The Expanse of Spirit [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Isn't it strange how a set of rules, such as end words or repeated lines or four-word constraints, can actually be more liberating than working from scratch? Over 200 entries poured in, 4 words…
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George Balanchine (1904-1983) on Dance
Balanchine is tremendously quotable – if only because so many of his bon mots are adapted from others. When he declared himself to be “not a man but a cloud in trousers,” for example,…
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What a difference can make #1 : the genius in Cheng Tsung-lung’s “Full Moon” [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: Sydney Dance Theater Cheng Tsung-lung’s lovely "Full Moon" at the Palais de Chaillot was part of the Sydney Dance Theater’s performance 2018 offer. As an experience, Cheng’s performance is as brilliant a non-verbal…
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Ungovernable Venom: A Review of Joseph Spece’s Bad Zoo
Bad ZooJoseph SpeceFathom Books, 2018 Joseph Spece’s new collection of poetry, Bad Zoo, questions, with barbed vehemence, the knowability of any self; the poems in this odd bestiary writhe with uncanny personae bent on…
