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Morituri te Salutant
Company: Black Label Movement Choreographer: Carl Flink Date Performed: May 10th, 2019 A note from the BLM Program: “Catalyzing idea:...
abigail whitmore
Jul 7, 20192 min read
abigail whitmore
Sep 6, 20180 min read
abigail whitmore
Feb 27, 20180 min read
Animal Velocity: An American Fantasy
Choreographed by Carl Flink Going into Black Label Movement, I came with this preconceived notion: the movement is going to seem...
abigail whitmore
Jan 17, 20182 min read
Clear as Tear Water
Choreographer: Ronald K. Brown Soloist: Taylor Collier Taylor is illuminated, arms wide as she methodically stirs the space in front of...
abigail whitmore
Jan 13, 20181 min read
41 Times
Choreography and direction: Stefanie Batten Bland with company dancers “Please note percussive ‘shot’ sounds are integrated into the...
abigail whitmore
Jan 12, 20182 min read
North of Your Foot
Choreographed by Laurie Van Wieren with Pramila Vasudevan, Julia Bither, Lauren Coleman, Anna Marie Shogren, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Corrinne...
abigail whitmore
Oct 30, 20173 min read
A Study of Excellent Craft: "A Love Supreme"
Who: Walker Art Center Presents: Salva Sanchis and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas What: A Love Supreme It seemed like such a simple...
abigail whitmore
Oct 26, 20172 min read
Beautiful Resistance
Ananya, her dancers, the musicians, set designers, and actors are brilliant. Together they are working to disrupt stereotypes, flip power...
abigail whitmore
Oct 2, 20173 min read
Kelvin Wailey: tumbleweeds but not because there's smushiness and unpredictability that implies pers
Kelvin Wailey, thank you for making a kaleidoscope with bodies, for examining relationships between women, for playing, for being...
abigail whitmore
Jul 26, 20173 min read
Content Warning: Sexual Assault
A letter to the choreographer of "Titicut Follies" Hello Mr. Sewell, I am a current Senior at the University of Minnesota studying dance....
abigail whitmore
Apr 20, 20175 min read
Watch HIJACK Watch
The following response is copying HIJACK's method of marketing for "HIJACK MAKING DANCES IN THE MEDIATHEQUE — pt. 1: volleyball = mexican...
abigail whitmore
Mar 28, 20171 min read
Winter Fieldwork: community and hygge
A personal reflection on winter and art making: Winter Fieldwork was the most meaningful performance I have seen this year. This piece...
abigail whitmore
Feb 13, 20172 min read
Batsheva
A slew of words collected by people who saw the show + some lingering questions: How I would describe Batsheva’s “Decadance”:...
abigail whitmore
Feb 1, 20171 min read
Kelvin Wailey
Defining social justice art has been a topic I have been thinking about lately -and I've been thinking about it in regards to this...
abigail whitmore
Jan 21, 20171 min read
Jerôme Bel's "Gala" and the Spectacle of Exploiting Identity
In Jérôme Bel’s Gala there is a disturbing display of ignored identities. What is meant to be a celebration of dance and every sort of...
abigail whitmore
Nov 15, 20162 min read
Vital Matters
Vital Matters dance festival October, 20-23, 2016 A poem response to Otto Ramstad's solo "Lineage": Triple presence past, space, narrator...
abigail whitmore
Nov 5, 20161 min read
Continuation of Radical Dreaming: a practice on dance writing
Ananya Dance Theatre Presents "Horidraa: Golden Healing" at the O'Shaughnessy September 16th-17th 2016 Three dancers clad in silver...
abigail whitmore
Sep 30, 20164 min read
Comp Class Response to "Solo un poco."
Soloist: Alanna Morris- Van Tassel Choreographed by: Idan Sharabi -an interior look at a personality and so the intricacies of the...
abigail whitmore
Sep 7, 20161 min read
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