It is our job as artists to create environments for people to see things differently. Pig Iron did that.
Sketches by Chuck Schultz.
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Author: Lily Kind
Lily Kind is a choreographic artist, writer, teacher, and anthropologist. She is interested in play, listening, and power structures. This shows up in her training in Lindy Hop, Flying Low, soft martial arts, chilled out Parkour, as well as in her choreography, teaching, and Ragtag Empire, a swing & soul dance business she co-runs with Heather Houde. Lily made dance exclusively in Baltimore from 2008-2015 as founder and directer of the Effervescent Collective. In this capacity, she directed movement for projects with collaborators such as Dan Deacon, Louis Weeks, Baltimore Rock Opera Society, Annex Theater, and Single Carrot Theater. She has danced for Guardian Baltimore and Chelsea & Magda, been commissioned by Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company, and assisted Guggenheim Fellows Stephan Koplowitz and Raphael Xavier. She sometimes produces work with Adam Stone, under the moniker Pidgin.
No Words for Arielle Pina’s NO INTRODUCTION or A White Viewer’s Guide to Reacting to NO INTRODUCTION
Arielle Pina doesn’t have words for it. She can talk about colorism , but there’s not a way to neatly explain how it has affected her.
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SHUTTLEFISH (Eva Steinmetz): In the middle of the lake
It feels like when I’ve rowed out to the middle of a lake alone on a cloudy-still day and suddenly I realize I’m in the middle of the lake.
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AT HOME WITH THE HUMORLESS BASTARD (Annie Wilson): What’s left behind
The boundaries are always open.
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Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
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