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This blog's concern is the tricky business of recognizing dance's peculiar language and history without needlessly isolating it from the rest of the culture. The blog began September 2006, with Eva Yaa Asantewaa and Paul Parish joining as cherished contributors soon after. Reader participation warmly welcomed.

has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsday, and New York Press, as well as SF Weekly, San Francisco magazine, SFGate (the SF Chronicle's website) and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to Salon, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Elle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Barnard magazine, Flash Art International, ArtNews, The Art Newspaper, and Art and Auction. She was a five-year Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Cornell University, where she did graduate work in English and taught writing and literature seminars. She has been on panels for the Dance Critics Association, the Bessies awards, the Alpert awards, Arts International awards, and has been a guest on public radio station WNYC.

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