By Kristen Lawson Ahmad Joudeh is the grandson of two Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria in 1948. His moving memoir Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star (Charlesbridge Publishing) demonstrates the powerful role that storytelling plays in our lives, for better and for worse. The day Joudeh first encountered ballet shaped
By Gavin Larsen My inspiration for The Rib-Cracking Episode, a chapter in Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life, came from my friend and fellow dance writer, Martha Ullman West. Martha and I had an ongoing email conversation as I was working on my book in which I shared with her
By Kyeren Regehr An artistic director has the power to lift a dancer to company stardom, or to house her in the wings. Interview with the Creator offers a composite of several artistic directors and choreographers who I worked with in Australia in the 1990s. It explores the way their position of power, and their