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Fellow & Publication Contributor Economics, Mental Health, and “The Industry”

Economics, Mental Health, and “The Industry”

A Reflection of Sorts by Drew Weinstein

About a year after I graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelors of Arts in Drama and a Music Minor, I experienced my first of what was to become many panic attacks. Half a year or so after graduating, I moved to New York City to pursue my dream of creating and directing what I perceived to be “experimental” and “immersive” works of theatre and performance (I know those are kind of…

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Added by Drew Weinstein on July 22, 2019 at 1:42pm — No Comments

ESSAY // Movement as Language, Healing, and Liberation

I have been dancing since I first felt the flesh surrounding me in my mother’s womb. Dance for me, like many and most I know, is my purest form of expression. It opens light inside of me, and has been a language between my brain, my body, and my spirit that only I can fully understand.

When I think of dance, I think of movement, performing, being in motion. This dance, this movement…

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Added by Nana Chinara on July 13, 2019 at 7:59am — No Comments

Fellow & Publication Contributor Working with the Environment through Dance and Film

*Photo by Natalie Deryn Johnson*

The LEIMAY Fellowship is supplying me with the space and resources to create the second film in the environmental dance film series,…

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Added by Kelly Todd on July 12, 2019 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Re-Performing Asian-ness

What are the words you use to identify yourself?

Where do you call home?

What is your relationship with “your countries?”

Where do you go to be Asian?

How do you stay Asian?

Do you ever feel like you need to present your Asian-ness?

What’s your relationship to the broader POC community?

When did you learn about the history of Asian discrimination in the United…

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Added by Rebecca Fitton on July 12, 2019 at 4:47pm — No Comments

Fellow & Publication Contributor Creating performance through the lens of a photographer

Creating performance through the lens of a photographer:

Preface: The intended reader is all sides of the article: choreographer, photographer, and audience.

The following is a compilation of…

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Added by Effy Grey on July 11, 2019 at 10:57pm — No Comments

Friend of LEIMAY INTERVIEW // The City of Ladies: a question of where

This article is a contribution from 2018-2019 LEIMAY Fellowship Artist Jenna Kirk. The LEIMAY Fellows are a group of local artists working individually throughout the year at the LEIMAY studio.…

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Added by Jenna Kirk on May 28, 2019 at 11:36pm — No Comments

PERCEPTIONS // PROCESS // NOX

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PERCEPTIONS // NOX

Disclaimer: This article is a contribution from 2018-2019 LEIMAY Fellowship Joy Douglas. The LEIMAY Fellows are a group of local artists working individually throughout the year at the LEIMAY…

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Added by Joy Douglas on May 6, 2019 at 10:48pm — No Comments

Perception // no thing - a contemplation

Jim Livingstone in Custer, South Dakota.

Perception // no thing - a contemplation

What is no thing? If you were to do a study in no thing where do you begin?…

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Added by Joy Douglas on February 28, 2019 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Fellow & Publication Contributor PROCESS // Monologues from PERSEPHONE, an exploration of a myth

Sunset through tangled trees, photo Judith Barnes

HADES

I've just about had it. We both know what I want, what I deserve, and that sister of ours is not gonna get in my way, not if you’re with me on this. I've had it with the darkness, the wailing,…

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Added by Judith Barnes on February 9, 2019 at 1:30am — No Comments

Fellow & Publication Contributor PROCESS // A BRIDGE. manifesto for a horizontal theater

This article is a contribution from 2018-2019 LEIMAY fellow Nicolas Noreña. The LEIMAY Fellows are a group of local artists working individually throughout the year at the LEIMAY studio.

01/22/2019…

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Added by Nicolas Noreña on February 5, 2019 at 11:30am — No Comments

Friend of LEIMAY ESSAY // Favoring Fire: Part II (five years later)

This article is a contribution from 2018-2019 LEIMAY Fellowship Artist Jeremy Goren. The LEIMAY Fellows are a group of local artists working individually throughout the year at the LEIMAY studio.

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Five years ago this…

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Added by Jeremy Goren on January 23, 2019 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Fellow & Publication Contributor Interview with Choreographer Bo Kyung Lee

Eunjin Choi: Congratulations! Please briefly introduce the festival to us.

Bokyung Lee: After moving to the United States in 2011, I have been working in New York, New Jersey, Washington, and Chicago. So I was able to experience American culture as well as Korean culture. And then I got also curious about other cultures as well so I’ve been thinking about presenting my work in other countries. While watching a website called "Dancing…

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Added by Eunjin,Choi on November 9, 2018 at 9:33pm — No Comments

Fellow & Publication Contributor "Lilith Under the Last Tree," notes on descriptions

This article is a contribution from 2017-2018 LEIMAY Fellowship Artist Polina Porras Sivolobova. The LEIMAY Fellows are a group of local artists working individually throughout the year at the LEIMAY studio.…