First Step for Dancers: Moving from Non-Racist to Anti-Racist
Hey, dancer! This post is for you, at whatever level of community involvement you're at. You don't need to have special social capital to...
A Better Smelling New Year
This past week, I attended Lindy Focus, and had the good fortune to attend all but one of Breai Mason-Campbell's Discussion Series about...
What I Learned at Practica
For a period of time during the early 2010s, Chicago had regular practicas, lead by Ruby Red. The practicas ran for about two hours, and...
Bracelets, Dysphoria and Cultural Norms
If you haven't already encountered an Ask Me to Dance bracelet in the wild, chances are you will very, very soon. Last week's fundraiser...
Being Poor and Working in Dance
Talking about money and dance is hard for me, for a lot of reasons. So for my first blog post of 2017 (oops), that's exactly what I'm...
Quick Tips for Lead-First Follows
One of the anomalous things about being an assigned female at birth lead is the number of lead-first follows that I dance with. In part...
The Job of a Social Dancer
About two months ago, I wrote the above Facebook post in response to a conversation that was occupying a lot of space on the American...
The Hoffberg Principle
There is a tendency amongst the more technical amongst us to look to science to settle disagreements, even within dancing. Sometimes, we...
The Cross-Over's Dilemma
Cross-training is well-established as a way to improve your dancing. Skills acquired in one dance often complement those acquired in your...
Those Competition Feels, pt 1
Do any of these sound familiar to you? "I can't believe _______ made it into finals before me! I know I'm a better dancer than them!" "I...
