{"id":358,"date":"2006-10-10T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp\/2006\/10\/lea_marshall_responds_the_call\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T16:12:31","slug":"lea_marshall_responds_the_call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/2006\/10\/lea_marshall_responds_the_call.html","title":{"rendered":"Lea Marshall responds: the call and response between writer and dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian, what you say about the writer&#8217;s process echoing the process of the artist under review really resonates with me.<br \/>\nI find writing reviews a glorious, yes agonizing process. It feels most rewarding when I can respond creatively to work that has moved me. Then a sort of call and response can begin; the artist calls through performance and we respond on behalf of ourselves as critics and of the larger community for whom we write. I was able to write this way most recently in a review for Dance Magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancemagazine.com\/dance_magazine\/reviews\/show_review.php?f=october_2006\/derevo.php&#038;PHPSESSID=dacacc15c1e29b8e7d78f6b09bd5bef6\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nMy own approach to criticism includes creating a written record of an ephemeral event (description); placing the work in a context for the reader (the frame); and providing critical interpretation based on my own knowledge and experience. I&#8217;m always interested in the balance between critics&#8217; responsibilities to the artist, the audience, and the readers or cultural record.<br \/>\nBest wishes,<br \/>\nLea Marshall<br \/>\n<em>[editor&#8217;s note: Lea Marshall is cofounder and executive director of Ground Zero Dance Company and Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University&#8217;s department of dance and choreography. She has written for Dance Magazine, Ballet-Dance Magazine and Dance International, among other publications.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian, what you say about the writer&#8217;s process echoing the process of the artist under review really resonates with me. I find writing reviews a glorious, yes agonizing process. It feels most rewarding when I can respond creatively to work that has moved me. Then a sort of call and response can begin; the artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}