By Tessa Perkins Deneault Twenty-one days after her son Sami was born, Starr Muranko was diagnosed with breast cancer. Sami was born with an extra chromosome 21 (Down syndrome). Muranko’s chemotherapy treatments were 21 days apart. It’s commonly believed that it takes 21 days to form a new habit. Muranko describes this “collision of events”
By Elaine Gaertner A musical composition can support the muscular energy of movement; guide the tempo, flow and dynamics of a dancer; accompany a narrative in a cinematic way; or float on top of visual imagery, allowing synergy to develop without design. All these approaches can result in works of dance that are eloquent and
By Kathleen Smith For dancer/choreographer Syreeta Hector, the solo work Black Ballerina is the distillation of years-long personal research into identity, family history and how to be an artist in a society that tends to tamp down both. Created largely pre-pandemic, and two years in the making, Black Ballerina poetically gathers the threads of Hector’s