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ArtDate 19: Maddie
Plucking 40 Chickens This is a longer blog post than I usually write for my ArtDates. My website says it will take you 4 minutes to read....
Dec 21, 20232 min read
ArtDate 18: Danielle
I've been emotionally under water this week, deeply leaning on the support of my friends while a torrent of new and old sadnesses,...
Nov 30, 20232 min read
ArtDate 17: Kimya
The few times Kimya Imani Jackson and I have been in an ensemble together, we've both said something to the effect of "we should make...
Feb 9, 20224 min read
ArtDate 16: Lee
I don’t remember exactly when my path crossed with Lee Fogel. As a fellow Philadelphia-based Oberlin graduate and contact improviser,...
Dec 16, 20213 min read
ArtDate 15: Kalila
When I started the ArtDates project, I was really excited about the products. When I meet with my collaborator, we're going to MAKE a...
Aug 21, 20201 min read
Digital Dissolving Doors: Miryam & Sara
Chances to perform have been few and far between for so many of us during the coronavirus pandemic. While I've been enjoying making works...
May 1, 20201 min read
ArtDate 14: Kenny (underthetable)
We didn't mean to have an ArtDate. It was a slow Saturday afternoon. My partner, Kenny Foner, and I had been quarantined together for...
Apr 17, 20202 min read
ArtDate #13: Sara
It started with a question: How can we create a shared space in two completely isolated spaces? Sara Outing and I were planning on doing...
Mar 5, 20201 min read
ArtDate #11: Kerian and Genevieve
Kerian Pearson, Genevieve Senechal and I got together for an unconventional ArtDate: 3 collaborators instead of 2, props(!), and the...
Mar 4, 20201 min read
ArtDate #12: Marion
Marion and I have been friends since freshman year of college and she was one of the first people I thought to do an ArtDate with. On the...
Feb 27, 20201 min read
ArtDate #10: Katherine
In October, Katherine Kiefer Stark and I got together for this ArtDate (#latergram am I right?). I've been taking Katherine's release...
Oct 26, 20191 min read
ArtDate #9: Harlee
Way back in September, Harlee Trautman and I took a break from our September schedules to have an art date. I was coming from starting a...
Oct 7, 20194 min read
ArtDate #8: Micah
The other city calls me
I feel her breeze around my neck
But I feel your ground beneath me
I can't take root in air
Sep 12, 20191 min read
Art Date #7: Justin & Dawn Anne
I met stained glass artist Justin Tyner for the first time at his Magic Garden's exhibition, Light as Memory and, on a whim, asked if he...
Sep 10, 20191 min read
Art Date #6: Dan
ArtDates find their own structure or structurelessness as they form. Some are more jam and improvisation oriented, some involve more...
Sep 5, 20191 min read
Art Date #5: Molly
Welcome to the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, where Molly Barger and I had my first ArtDate of Philadelphia Fringe. We'd like to...
Aug 22, 20192 min read
Throwback Thursday: Fresh Juice
"Is it going to be good?" "What is good?" "Is it going to matter?" "What is matter?" I touch your arm "We are matter. So...
Apr 1, 20191 min read
Art Date #4: Janna
Janna Meiring and I improvised a lot of ideas that we wrote on index cards. Here, in this post, you can experience some of those index...
Apr 1, 20191 min read
Elastic Lineage
My review of Sanchel Brown's Home to Homeland is up on thINKingDANCE. It was an exceptional show and inspired me to write one of my...
Apr 1, 20191 min read
Dancing the Drama
BalletX has a lot of energy, as Artistic and Executive Director Christine Cox makes clear in her curtain speech. She bounces in her...
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