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...