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Call It What It Is

By bdfSpring 2021: The Future Impossible
Call It What It is by Ashley Chavonne When was the last time you were asked to use your imagination?  I called up a few friends, posed this question and...
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April 12, 2021

Around Resilience

By bdfSpring 2021: The Future Impossible
Around Resilience a conversation with Darius Barnes, Jeroboam Bozeman, Nigel Campbell and Ephraim Sykes Since March 12, 2020, I’ve made up everyday as it has come to me, rarely with...
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April 12, 2021

Raja Feather Kelly

By bdfWinter 2021: The Future Impossible

Choreographer/Director Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of the feath3r theory, the dance-theatre-media company that he founded in 2009. Raja is a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School, and…

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February 2, 2021

for The Future Impossible

By bdfWinter 2021: The Future Impossible
for The Future Impossible by Fana Fraser   “How would you respond to the idea of radical imagination?”             Would I?        ...
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January 26, 2021

Why I Do This

By bdfWinter 2021: The Future Impossible
Why I Do This by Okwui Okpokwasili Breath The chorus When we fall and catch each other Dancers are the best at this Bearing the weight With a kind of...
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January 25, 2021

untitled: on mental health and embodied artistry

By bdfWinter 2021: The Future Impossible
untitled: on mental health and embodied artistry by J. Bouey Ain’t it time for the dance field to invest in mental healthcare similarly to how we invest in physical healthcare?...
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January 25, 2021

Raja and Maria ON AN IMPOSSIBLE FUTURE

By bdfWinter 2021: The Future Impossible
Raja and Maria ON AN IMPOSSIBLE FUTURE Raja: Can I just start by letting you know, one, this is being recorded Maria: Got it R: And two, Maria, You are an actual...
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December 11, 2020

When we get there, there will be deviled eggs

By Lauren WarneckeLive From The Festival

Note: What follows below is an edited version of my remarks at the Inside Dance pre-performance talk ahead of Joanna Kotze’s “What Will We Be Like When We Get There.”…

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August 6, 2019

Whimsy & Wonder: Musings on Lida Winfield’s ‘Imaginary’ by Phoebe Ballard

By Lauren WarneckeLive From The Festival

Note: Throughout my time as scholar in residence, I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phoebe Ballard, who in addition to participating in the Professional Training Program and working as…

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August 3, 2019

Live from the festival: Who gets to own a dance? Beyonce, apparently

By Lauren WarneckeLive From The Festival

During my last semester as a college dance major, a classmate in my composition course accused me of stealing her move. It was during an in-class showing. She performed a…

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July 31, 2019
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