What is dance? Well that depends on how one defines dance. The existence of this journal is a reflection of the fact that we all have different ideas. Even Webster’s dictionary provides two definitions broken into five smaller refinements. Any one of those explanations can be reduced into a tighter definition or expanded to cover other possibilities. “To move quickly up and down or about” is a reasonable de ...

"The dancer identity has many layers. Some are positive (graceful, strong, beautiful), some negative (poor, insecure, dumb.)" ...

As the funeral procession passed the red brick home on the way to the Salem Cemetery, the child, standing and watching from the porch, broke into a mournful improvised song laced with primal movement that was appropriate for the raw howling of a third- grader. The youthful erotic late-night theatrical improvisations with neighborhood girls ('Dances to the Moon' – a possible biblical reference to the moon tu ...