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2013.12.30: Tuesday December 30
2013.12.30: Mutant remakes street dance
2013.11.26: Tuesday November 26
2013.11.26: Theatre of the Unjust
2013.10.08: Thursday October 8:
2013.10.08: Ballet Bug
2013.03.03: Sunday March 3:
2013.03.03: Purgatory at the New York City Ballet
2013.01.19: Saturday January 19
2013.01.18: Uptown, Downtown
2012.12.17: Monday December 17
2012.12.17: Love and the Law
2012.12.08: Saturday, December 8:
2012.12.08: "Anna Karenina" dancing in a theater near you
2012.09.26: Wednesday September 26
2012.09.26: Valentino red, Balanchine light and dark
2012.09.23: Monday September 24:
2012.09.22: Time, space, and outer space
2012.09.16: Monday September 17:
2012.09.16: From Russia with love: 1950s Bollywood
2012.09.10: Tuesday September 11:
2012.09.10: Indie ballet
2012.09.01: Saturday Sept. 1:
2012.09.01: Fringe of the Fringe: what gets left out of even the most unorthodox corner of the art form
2012.08.21: Tuesday August 21:
2012.08.21: Street movement
2012.08.15: Wednesday August 15
2012.08.15: Summer, near and far
2012.08.04: Saturday August 4:
2012.08.04: Pass go: With Tao Dance Theatre, the Chinese head straight to postmodernism
2012.07.21: Saturday July 21:
2012.07.21: Pilobolus and friends zing and drift
2012.07.16: July 16:
2012.07.16: French-American relations or, how I fell in love with the Paris Opera Ballet's "Giselle"
2012.07.14: Saturday, July 14:
2012.07.13: American game-changers: Smith and Brown
2012.07.04: Wednesday July 4
2012.07.04: Angel's Farewell
2012.06.25: Sunday June 24:
2012.06.25: Ratmansky redux ("Firebird" again). Plus late breaking NEWS FLASH!!!
2012.06.18: Sunday June 17
2012.06.18: The flap about "Firebird"
2012.06.02: June 1
2012.06.02: Rites of passage
2012.05.24: May 25:
2012.05.24: Form and functionaries
2012.05.20: May 19:
2012.05.20: This year's model (Giselle)
2011.09.21: Participatory Art
2011.09.21: Participatory Art and its Discontents
2011.04.20: Wed. April 20
2011.04.18: Old masters looking back as we wonder about looking forward (revised already)
2011.03.21: Monday, March 21
2011.03.19: The dancer and the dance (on the occasion of Balanchine and kin)
2011.02.08: Step sisters (NEW! comments, and comments on the comments)
2011.01.26: Wednesday, January 26:
2011.01.20: Thursday January 20:
2011.01.17: Tuning in to tone with five dances and one movie
2011.01.05: Wednesday January 5
2010.12.28: Nutcracker suite
2010.12.27: Monday December 27
2010.12.27: The yearly Ailey surprise
2010.11.27: Saturday November 27
2010.11.16: Neither here nor there
2010.11.07: November 8:
2010.11.06: European import
2010.10.23: Saturday, October 23
2010.10.23: Conundrum: how to write about left field shows
2010.10.10: Sunday October 10
2010.10.10: The tricky craft of curation, the worldviews in dances, and other thoughts from the first month of the season
2010.09.25: Saturday September 25:
2010.09.25: Hodgepodge: reviews of Nora Chipaumire + Souleymane Badolo, Balanchine's "Danses Concertantes" and "Who Cares?," and Jerome Bel's self-portraits of other people
2010.08.28: Sunday August 28:
2010.08.28: Women's work, the great outdoors, and conjuring a glorious repertory piece in a few words: August reviews
2010.08.03: Monday August 2:
2010.08.01: Art Spiegelman brings culture (other than the physical kind) to Pilobolus; Rezo Gabriadze creates pathos from string and wire; Bill T. Jones pays oblique homage to Lincoln--and Merce; and Pichet Klunchun moves between monkey, demon, and demi-goddess
2010.07.17: Four farewells, three Romeos, a duet squared, and definitely only one Saburo Teshigawara (updated Thurs 7/22 with photos and a bit of commentary!)
2010.07.13: Tuesday July 13
2010.07.13: Guess who's giving the keynote address at the Dance Critics Association's annual conference?
2010.07.01: Thursday July 1
2010.07.01: Tap City indeed: through time (decade by decade) and the world (beat by beat)
2010.06.18: Saturday, June 19
2010.06.14: Ashton's charming knowingness, Graham's unfolding abstraction, John Jasperse's wily truthiness, and New York City Ballet's mixed bag (UPDATE FRIDAY 6/25)
2010.06.05: Saturday, June 5
2010.06.05: Women, beasts, and ballet
2010.05.28: Friday May 28:
2010.05.28: Pathos and bathos: two shows
2010.05.24: Monday May 24:
2010.05.23: War horse, weather vane, and negative space: three shows
2010.05.09: Balanchine and the latest Ratmansky wonder
2010.05.01: Saturday May 1
2010.05.01: Critic mesmerized
2010.04.25: Sunday, April 25
2010.04.25: Move over, Marina
2010.04.18: Sunday April 18:
2010.04.10: The drama in dance: Faye Driscoll and Trisha Brown
2010.04.04: Monday April 5:
2010.04.04: Twyla Tharp's "Come Fly Away": subterranean homesick blues
2010.03.18: Friday, March 19
2010.03.18: Thick description: Larry Keigwin
2010.03.10: Thursday, March 11
2010.03.10: Pale breasts in the gloom, birds on a wire
2010.02.27: Saturday February 27
2010.02.27: Modern-dance heavies
2010.02.17: Wednesday, February 17:
2010.02.17: Highlights of the past week: Rocio Molina, new kind of flamenco diva, as well as NYCB's glorious return to Balanchine and glassy imitation of Robbins gems (updated Sunday night, 2/21)
2010.02.15: Valentine's Day:
2010.02.14: Happy Valentine's Day, ballet style
2010.01.31: Sunday January 31:
2010.01.31: Promise and dreck
2010.01.22: Friday, January 22:
2010.01.22: A call out to choreographers: more mothers-in-law in ballet
2010.01.09: Saturday January 9:
2010.01.09: New Tharp and old Balanchine: this week's ballet triumphs
2010.01.01: Friday January 1, 2010!
2010.01.01: Happy New Year and decade: what I hope for, this month and beyond (with some additions and revisions, 1/3 pm)
2009.12.22: Tuesday, December 21
2009.12.22: "The Good Dance": if only
2009.12.20: Sunday, December 20
2009.12.20: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre: what it has and what it needs
2009.12.17: Thursday, December 17
2009.12.17: Cubism: Jonah Bokaer inside the white cube of the black box of the white cube of the museum
2009.12.03: Friday, December 4:
2009.12.03: Ballet Hispanico: weak of purpose
2009.11.21: Saturday November 21
2009.11.21: Is it possible to present alienation without inducing it?
2009.11.18: Wednesday November 18
2009.11.18: Coming to a big screen near you...
2009.11.13: Friday November 13 (oooh, spooky):
2009.11.13: Go: Tere O'Connor and company's "Wrought Iron Fog" at Dance Theater Workshop
2009.11.05: Thursday November 5
2009.11.05: Armitage toys with Africans; Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble brings ancient debauchery to life
2009.10.31: Saturday October 31:
2009.10.31: A subdued Garth Fagan
2009.10.26: Monday October 26
2009.10.25: Spooky shows from Bill T. Jones and Joe Goode
2009.10.22: Friday October 23
2009.10.22: If the movement is original but induces nausea, should a critic complain or celebrate?
2009.10.17: Saturday October 17
2009.10.17: More on online dance-video collections, and why the likes of the Balanchine Trust might need to shut them down...[Wait: No they needn't. Breaking News from real Lawyer]
2009.10.14: Wednesday, October 14
2009.10.13: From the ridiculous to the sublime: two current New York shows
2009.10.13: Tuesday October 13
2009.10.13: What would Balanchine have thought of a YouTube presence?
2009.10.11: Sunday October 11:
2009.10.11: Balanchine Trust puts pressure on the Ketinoa ballet channel on YouTube, and the Tube shuts the whole massive thing down
2009.10.09: Friday, October 9
2009.10.09: American Ballet Theatre's generous dose of premieres
2009.10.06: Tuesday October 6
2009.10.06: Democracy's Dream, Ballets Russes' still potent promise
2009.10.01: Thursday October 1:
2009.10.01: For madmen and movement lovers only
2009.08.26: Wednesday August 26
2009.08.26: "He's primitive, he's civilized!"--he's Mark Morris
2009.08.13: August 13:
2009.08.13: Cranky New Yorkers (scroll down to asterisks for part two: the so-called ballroom scene)
2009.08.07: August 7:
2009.08.07: Jacob's Pillow--my first time up
2009.07.27: July 27:
2009.07.27: Merce: Gone
2009.07.23: Thursday July 23:
2009.07.23: BalletGate: Why Balletmaster Peter Martins' reduced salary of $629,000 is still way too high
2009.07.15: Wed. July 15
2009.07.15: Winter mind from desert choreographer Emanuel Gat
2009.07.11: Saturday July 11
2009.07.11: Shout out to LA readers: David Hallberg and Gillian Murphy in "Romeo and Juliet" a must-see
2009.07.03: Friday July 3:
2009.07.03: Diana Vishneva in Frederick Ashton's "Sylvia" (with added insight from my friend Andy)
2009.06.28: Sunday June 28:
2009.06.27: Moon Walker (with added insight from Paul Parish and Brian Seibert, critic and tap historian. Scroll down)
2009.06.25: June 25:
2009.06.25: Wild Thing
2009.06.01: Monday June 1
2009.06.01: June doings while Foot rests (plus long ps. on the Ratmansky premiere at ABT)
2009.05.03: Monday May 4:
2009.05.03: Frankie Manning, "Never Stop Swinging"
2009.04.28: April 28:
2009.04.28: Joe Goode: walking the line
2009.04.21: April 21
2009.04.21: Postscript on Cunningham's "Nearly Ninety"
2009.04.19: April 20
2009.04.19: University of California budget cuts threaten to wipe out dance classes (UPDATED M, 4/27)
2009.04.18: April 18
2009.04.18: Go: Final exits at "Nearly Ninety"
2009.04.13: Monday April 13:
2009.04.13: Vicky Shick's ripe "Glimpse"
2009.04.08: Wed April 8
2009.03.21: Saturday March 22:
2009.03.21: Deja-vu fest?
2009.03.15: Eva and Apollinaire, March 16:
2009.03.15: Sound Memory fast-forwarded (with added dialogue between Eva and Apollinaire)
2009.03.04: Paul Parish, March 4:
2009.03.03: Movies, bars, and ballet
2009.02.15: February 15:
2009.02.15: GO: Balanchine's one-act "Swan Lake"
2009.02.06: Friday, February 6:
2009.02.06: Heads and Eyes
2009.01.30: January 30:
2009.01.30: An encore presentation (aka a rerun) of about a dozen Foot pieces from 2008
2009.01.21: January 21:
2009.01.21: Miami City Ballet in town
2009.01.18: Saturday, January 17:
2009.01.17: Catch the Jerome Robbins documentary Feb. 18 on PBS
2009.01.12: Monday January 12:
2009.01.12: Long lost topic: Dance on camera
2009.01.08: Thursday, January 7:
2009.01.08: $25 orchestra seats at the New York City Ballet!!! (corrected version)
2008.12.29: Tuesday December 30:
2008.12.29: Gifts
2008.12.11: Thursday, December 11:
2008.12.11: The ballet boy with movie star magneticism
2008.12.08: Being somebody
2008.12.03: Apollinaire, Thursday December 4:
2008.11.19: Wednesday November 19:
2008.11.19: Gottlieb's "Reading Dance" revisited
2008.11.19: Apollinaire, Wednesday November 19:
2008.11.19: Clive Barnes (1927-2008), RIP
2008.11.15: Apollinaire, Saturday, November 15:
2008.11.15: Robert Gottlieb's "Reading Dance": a squandered opportunity
2008.11.11: Apollinaire, Tuesday, November 11:
2008.11.11: Gillian Murphy, pillar of fire
2008.11.06: Apollinaire, Thursday, November 6:
2008.11.05: We got there
2008.10.30: Apollinaire, Thursday, October 30:
2008.10.30: American Ballet Theatre's 2009 spring season: cheering
2008.10.28: Apollinaire, Tuesday Oct. 28
2008.10.28: The scribbling class, the yawning ass
2008.10.23: How to make lazy, sleepy, or dopey friends and relatives laugh--and get them to the polls ontime
2008.10.19: Apollinaire, Monday Oct. 20
2008.10.19: How to watch a Wheeldon ballet. Plus, his young company's promise and peril
2008.10.15: That '70s ballerina:
2008.10.15: GO: Cynthia Gregory in conversation this Friday
2008.10.08: Ann Liv Young: performance artist for the Palin moment
2008.10.04: Dance fashion
2008.09.27: Friends and art: more on the conundrum
2008.09.16: More on Ratmansky, writing about the work of friends, and--new!--Luca Veggetti's "Oresteia"
2008.09.14: Paul's planet
2008.09.12: Fantastic Ballet News: Ratmansky in the house
2008.08.29: Apollinaire, Sunday August 24, UPDATED Saturday August 30:
2008.08.29: In lieu of a real post: a cat and some notes (expanded version)
2008.08.27: That endangered species, touring dancers
2008.08.07: Lovecat
2008.07.28: Theresa Ruth Howard, Monday, July 28:
2008.07.28: Alvin Ailey's fiftieth, from the inside out
2008.07.13: Jerome Robbins' "Goldberg Variations," back and front
2008.07.05: What I like about him
2008.06.19: GO: Neil Greenberg at Dance Theater Workshop (only through Saturday)
2008.06.17: We like her, we really, really like her
2008.06.11: Ballet Miscellany
2008.06.09: Coming soon (I hope)...
2008.06.02: Julian Barnett's "Sound Memory" and other odes to retro habits at La Mama Moves
2008.05.17: GO: Eleanor Bauer's "At Large"
2008.05.10: "Far," "tanks under trees," other war dances, and the new Inertia Movement
2008.05.09: On the other hand, "Dybbuk": the flipside of "Watermill"
2008.05.05: Milling around in "Watermill"
2008.05.04: What's going on?
2008.04.25: Robbins Celebration at City Ballet: Exclusive interviews with Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan, and Damian Woetzel on the man and his dances
2008.04.22: GO: Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "zero degrees"
2008.04.19: GO: Miami City Ballet on Long Island
2008.04.16: GO: The Kirov does Forsythe (with UPDATE)
2008.04.09: GO: Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
2008.04.06: Foreign report: My friend Andy on the Kirov's Fokine program
2008.04.02: Olesia Novikova: check her out
2008.03.28: GO: Emanuel Gat does Mozart
2008.03.27: GO: Puppets, here, there, and on Long Island
2008.03.23: Macaulay Watch: The chief Times dance critic is getting better (REVISED)
2008.03.13: GO? St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre's "Carmen"
2008.03.08: Mark Morris's "King Arthur": I didn't like it.
2008.02.29: GO: Paul Taylor at City Center (Updated Saturday)
2008.02.28: GO-- to Long Island or New Jersey for the Perm Tchaikovsky Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet"
2008.02.22: GO: Juliette Mapp at Danspace Project
2008.02.13: Go: Ronald K. Brown at the Joyce this week
2008.02.11: The second coming of... (plus--added Wednesday--the farewells of...)
2008.02.07: One of Queens' best-kept secrets...
2008.02.03: Trisha Brown even works hard at interviews
2008.01.25: Time for modern dance to admit its age
2007.12.29: January dances in New York (addition, 1/4)
2007.12.23: GO? "Overall, this show is a wow," reports Eva Yaa Asantewaa on "Tango Fire." Plus, a tardy YAY for Full Circle's "Innaviews" at Dance Theater Workshop
2007.12.17: Divided and conquered: the Argentine tango
2007.12.11: More on us curmudgeonly dance critics (Wednesday night: Eva responds. Scroll down)
2007.12.09: Is it fun or is it work? (With more! Monday noon)
2007.12.06: GO: Robbinschilds at P.S. 122
2007.12.04: Matthew Neenan, Pennsylvania Ballet's terrific resident choreographer. Plus, a note on Performa 07.
2007.12.01: "A haunted happening in the shadow of our transience"--Toni Bentley on Nureyev. (Updated again Tuesday. Scroll down)
2007.11.30: Who woulda thought? A lovely Bejart ballet
2007.11.28: Pennsylvania Ballet's Romantic "Serenade"
2007.11.22: She nails it: Jennifer Homans on the Nureyev bio
2007.11.21: Go: Peter Martins' "Grazioso" at New York City Ballet's fall gala
2007.11.20: Blame Canada
2007.11.20: What about a dramaturge? A yucky word but a fine idea
2007.11.18: Have choreographers forgotten their audience?
2007.11.15: Freaky unison
2007.11.12: No one wants to play the rube
2007.11.04: Walking the line
2007.10.19: To make up for all the schadenfreude: a smart review of the Nureyev bio
2007.10.15: The British Guardian borrows our ideas. (You're welcome!)
2007.10.11: GO: Amalia Hernandez's Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
2007.10.10: Shimmyblogger Natalia: We don't need no Pavarotti, we need a Michael Jordan. The Foot crew responds.
2007.10.10: Forget Pavarotti, let's do Pavlova!
2007.10.04: Dance films in which the film knows what to do with the dance: reader recommendations (UPDATE SATURDAY)
2007.09.29: The Pavarotti of dance? More readers respond! YAY! (and we respond to the responses)
2007.09.25: Bloggers on Macaulay: turns out to be a nice man!
2007.09.22: Apropos of popularizing dance...
2007.09.21: The Pavarotti of dance? If only Michael Jackson ...
2007.09.21: GO (SF Bay Area edition): Chris Black's "Pastime" in the parks
2007.09.17: Where's our Pavarotti? Readers respond (UPDATED WEDNESDAY NIGHT)
2007.09.13: GO: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce (UPDATE Sunday: Eva Yaa Asantewaa responds)
2007.09.07: A Pavarotti for dance?
2007.09.02: Dance onscreen that trumps dance onstage
2007.08.28: Nureyev as a young star on PBS this week...
2007.08.25: What's the pity? Eva Yaa Asantewaa reviews the site specific "Accounting for Customs" and the Times dance chief's review. Apollinaire responds.
2007.08.12: What's so hard about getting dance to "sing" on TV
2007.08.04: Ah, summer in New York!
2007.08.03: Scant
2007.07.26: Down, down on the right...
2007.07.26: Jews and chairs (with snarky comment by Countercritic, Apollinaire's sober response and another Israeli chair example from Eva)
2007.07.22: Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine Chief, and Swan Lake Samba Girl Tonya Plank respond to ABT's "Sleeping Beauty" problem and promise
2007.07.18: What American Ballet Theatre might do about its new "Sleeping Beauty"
2007.07.16: Coming Soon
2007.07.13: For the heat: the quasi-mojo
2007.07.10: Tap Talk on the Radio!
2007.07.08: Ladies Who Launch
2007.07.07: How's the New York Times dance chief doing? Readers respond
2007.07.04: "Cinderella" at American Ballet Theatre and Macaulay at the Times
2007.07.01: Dance on screen can too get you hooked! argues Tonya Plank
2007.06.27: Why opera gets the crowds that ballet can only covet, revisited (with added call out to readers from Apollinaire, at end)
2007.06.20: GO: The Oakland Dance Festival
2007.06.15: Theresa Ruth Howard reports on Dance/NYC's Race and Dance forum (with response from Baraka Sele, July 2)
2007.06.14: Elsewhere
2007.06.12: GO: Noche Flamenca, plus protocol
2007.06.12: Foot In Mouth
2007.06.09: Apollinaire Scherr
2007.06.09: GO: Ohad Naharin's "Decadance," performed by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
2007.06.08: A small epiphany about ABT's "The Sleeping Beauty," plus June plans
2007.06.07: Ballet Alert: Something we can agree on
2007.06.04: Sleeping Beauty wakes up a little creaky, but wait till she's had some coffee!
2007.05.29: Guess who was on the radio recently?
2007.05.24: Ballet is TOO sophisticated! Is NOT!
2007.05.19: Why does opera get the crowds and ballet doesn't? Part Two
2007.05.19: Go: Doug Varone's "Dense Terrain"
2007.05.18: GO: American Ballet Theatre's "The Sleeping Beauty"
2007.05.16: Tonya Plank: Why do my friends clamor for opera, but not ballet?
2007.05.11: GO: Keo Woolford in "I Land"
2007.05.07: Go: Mark Morris directing Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" at the Met
2007.05.05: Contact me
2007.05.01: Wise Words
2007.04.30: Nothing Festival Web reviews
2007.04.26: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: More Ado about a Lot
2007.04.23: Tonya Plank: More reflections on the Nothing Festival [expanded version, Monday 11 pm]
2007.04.21: GO: Jennifer Allen's "Open" at the Kitchen
2007.04.20: Doug Fox: Skip the Funders--and go direct to the Internet [revised, Friday night]
2007.04.20: Readers respond to thoughts on the Nothing Festival
2007.04.19: GO: Dean Moss at the Nothing Festival, plus thoughts on "nothing"
2007.04.18: GO: Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal
2007.04.12: Baggy thoughts on money, faith, and art
2007.04.02: It's a girl, it's a boy, it's an InfiniteBody!
2007.03.28: Paul Parish: More on the scary, sexy power of Matthew Bourne's swans
2007.03.25: Mob Mentality
2007.03.21: GO: Tamango's Urban Tap
2007.03.21: Apollinaire: All--or Kinda--Quiet on the Foot Front
2007.03.10: New York choreographer Clare Byrne: Sticking it out
2007.03.08: The beat goes on...
2007.02.27: Reader Tonya Plank: claims of sexism in the dance world not off-the-wall
2007.02.22: Former Times head dance critic John Rockwell responds to Apollinaire's grumblings
2007.02.20: Laura Bleiberg of the Orange County Register: I'm disappointed, too
2007.02.16: Leading "the girls"
2007.02.12: No, I really do like comments....
2007.02.09: Paul Parish: I concede. On the other hand, quality-time-with-your-own-mind fits too conveniently into niche marketing
2007.02.08: We interrupt this program....
2007.02.08: Marc Etlin: Do we really want to return to the monoculture of Christianity--especially since we've never quite left it?
2007.02.07: Paul Parish responds: We don't want no reality TV
2007.02.07: We interrupt this program....
2007.02.06: Apollinaire: chorus, corps, reality TV, and the forgotten modernist project. With response from Paul Parish.
2007.02.06: Paul Parish: more on the lost worlds of "Liebeslieder" and "Serenade"--of Germany and Shakespearean Tempest-tossed lands
2007.02.05: Brian Seibert and Apollinaire: Weeping over the lost worlds of "Liebeslieder Walzer"; plus, does a ballet corps distil or diffuse?
2007.02.04: Apollinaire: This or that--picking favorites among Balanchine wonders
2007.01.22: Apollinaire: Making megabuck ballets better [plus-- hot off the presses!--dialogue with choreographer and dance critic Leigh Witchel!]
2007.01.10: Apollinaire: Protocol
2006.12.30: Paul: "The Nutcracker" and the family circle
2006.12.29: Eva responds to Clare Byrne: Yes! to art that sheds our usual selves
2006.12.19: Apollinaire: neighbors Doug and John over at Diacritical
2006.12.14: Apollinaire: the critics of the critics of the critics
2006.12.13: An arts consultant responds: The Time Out survey is "deplorable"
2006.12.09: Apollinaire: the critics critiqued (with new, incendiary commentary!)
2006.12.08: Apollinaire: We interrupt this program...
2006.11.29: Choreographer Clare Byrne: Taking pleasure in the dire situation of professional dance
2006.11.28: Free link to dance-dies-in-America article, with more commentary
2006.11.27: Apollinaire: Holiday lists of dances you almost loved
2006.11.25: Another cheery take on the state of dance in America
2006.11.19: The dirt on "underground"
2006.11.17: Odd and ends: comments from readers and a question to readers
2006.11.17: A choreographer comes forward: "I have made a dance to Dylan."
2006.11.10: Apollinaire: Sweet Dylan Suite
2006.11.10: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: Tales of the Crypt
2006.11.09: Rachel Howard, regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, responds to "How NOT to write, So Dance Will Matter"
2006.11.08: Doug Fox: So, um, what about my question? Apollinaire tries harder this time
2006.11.05: How NOT to Write, So Dance Will Matter
2006.11.01: A reader asks: if we think of a performance as a cover, do we fail to acknowledge its unique nature? Apollinaire responds
2006.10.31: Reader Amy Reusch asks: aren't all ballets by now-dead choreographers "covers"? Apollinaire answers.
2006.10.30: A choreographer responds: No, writers aren't the enemy
2006.10.29: Apollinaire responds to Eva's "The Night Juliette Mapp Broke My Heart" (the post just below)
2006.10.29: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: The Night Juliette Mapp Broke My Heart
2006.10.27: Apollinaire: Call out to choreographers: How about a Dylan dance lovefest to chase away the Twyla Tharp blues? Eva responds. Apollinaire responds to the response
2006.10.26: Apollinaire responds: good and bad violence in dance
2006.10.25: Reader asks and Eva Yaa Asantewaa responds: Is modern dance made for masochists?
2006.10.23: Apollinaire: check out the comments column...
2006.10.22: Eva Yaa Asantewaa
2006.10.22: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: Soothing Our Nerves
2006.10.19: Paul Parish
2006.10.19: Paul Parish: the allegory of fairy tale, past and present
2006.10.19: Apollinaire: GO
2006.10.16: Paul Parish, with preface by Apollinaire: rhythm radio frequency
2006.10.16: Apollinaire, with help from Amy Reusch: a few preliminary questions on fairy tale ballets
2006.10.15: Apollinaire: I meant it as a metaphor...
2006.10.11: "That freaky stuff"--Verizon repairman on modern dance
2006.10.10: Lea Marshall responds: the call and response between writer and dance
2006.10.09: Brian Seibert responds to "The Frame Game": why to leave the "I" out
2006.10.08: yoohoo
2006.10.06: Annie-B responds: we can be still to call attention to motion
2006.10.05: Marc Etlin: Give arrhythmia a chance
2006.10.04: from Paul: Kinesthetic Identification and why I write
2006.10.03: The Frame Game
2006.10.02: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
2006.10.01: Annie-B: rhythm among the elements
2006.10.01: Holley Farmer
2006.10.01: Paul Parish responds
2006.09.30: second response, from Annie-B Parson
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