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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.
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A PERIOD OF ANIMATE EXISTENCE (Pig Iron): Creating an environment for thought

Lily Kind October 6, 2017 No Comments

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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Dance Features Previews

No Words for Arielle Pina’s NO INTRODUCTION or A White Viewer’s Guide to Reacting to NO INTRODUCTION

Lily Kind August 17, 2017 No Comments

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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Dance Reviews

SHUTTLEFISH (Eva Steinmetz): In the middle of the lake

Lily Kind May 11, 2017 1 Comment

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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Dance Reviews

AT HOME WITH THE HUMORLESS BASTARD (Annie Wilson): What’s left behind

Lily Kind January 8, 2017 No Comments

The boundaries are always open.

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Dance Features Reviews

Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION

Lily Kind December 23, 2016 1 Comment

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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