Rhinoceros In these modern times, I confess to forgetting, on occasion,that rhinoceroses aren’t dinosaurs. Nor extinct—at least, not yet.That they live in this world, somewhere,...

Science 101 Like the universeI’m expanding -sadly, not nearlythe way I had hoped.Our physics teachererroneously told usobjects lose massas they approach       the speed of lightand yetas...

This article is a finalists in the 2024 DC College Student Arts Journalism Competition. Find more information about the 2024 competition here. A central thread...

Patricia Spears Jones writes about D.C.'s recent 2010 Split This Rock poetry festival. Photos by Jill Brazel.

It is not quite accurate to say Lola is growing old for she has always been old, teetering in and out of lifetimes. Each...

Naima Prevots introduction to the "State of the Arts" focus section originally published in Bourgeon Vol.3 #1

Turning ElegyLeaving is all we have.It’s your not being here speaking.Leaving the door ajar, the tableswept—turning into something less than comfort. What did you...

Video interviews of local dance history: recollections from Judith Judson and Marcia Freeman

The editors' introduction to the 7th printed issue of Bourgeon, which quotes George Balanchine who wrote, "many of us are more easily entertained if we have in advance some information about an art that happens to be strange to us.”