I came of age as a choreographer in Washington D.C., which meant that to me, the Kennedy Center was a teacher, a refuge, a studio, and a stage.

She showed up—age 59—for an audition for a social dance club, and wanted to leave the moment she understood it was something else. But she was in the group in the corner and she couldn’t figure out how to get to the door, so she stayed almost twenty years.

Place your weight on one Trump while you move the other Trump slightly to the back with your Trump turned outward.

Dramaturgy as a name and a concept was not part of my early training, or even my early thinking as I began to explore the possibilities of narrative in choreography and dance as a nonfiction art form.

It was a real surprise for me when, earlier this year, I was asked by Hamilton College to talk to their athletic coaches about feedback.

So I lived with the images of shape and momentum for a decade, and tested the clarity the concept could bring in conversations when it seemed useful.

The witches have a history to share with you about the outcomes of demonstrating any way of living outside these prohibitions.

Between ages 14 and 27, I experimented with taking dance classes of all genres at the highest level.

Remembering why I started to dance and how happy I was at that moment…

I have always believed that we needed to keep one foot in the community world and one in the concert world. But over the years I have seen how this very exciting and dynamic way of working can be perceived as a compromise to quality.

I am a trader, moving ideas through the body

Surprise! There is no subject heading for dance in the classification system of the Library of Congress.

It is not so much that the pictures tell me more about our relationship; they tell me more about her in the world.

I am grateful for the quiet thrill of walking down a lane, hearing birdsong, and musing about nothing in particular. It is simply wonderful.

I couldn’t help but think of the effort that the earth undertakes in each second. It’s usually hidden from us, but not here. Here you hear it.  

My family had a unique way of celebrating Hannukah. My mother had made what she called a Hannukah Bag, several feet of blue fabric with eight pockets. Each pocket had a yellow symbol: a Jewish star, a menorah, a lion.

It might have been a poster in a middle school classroom. Beautiful colors, hills and sky, mountains, gorges, lakes and something that said, “You have to see this place.” And now some 65 plus years later, my daughter Anna, her husband Peter, and I will visit New...

A grade is a shape. Most of the time, the person in front of me is in momentum. At least I hope they are.

Sometimes I fear our interest in being inclusive leads to a generalization.

It’s an ongoing inquiry and practice—how to get folks to notice what is happening while it’s happening and then be able to harvest some small part of their intuitive learning.