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Bourgeon’s mission, through our online publication and community initiatives, is twofold: to increase participation in the arts and to improve access to the arts. Bourgeon is a project of the not-for-profit Day Eight.

Alaine Handa: What is Dance?

A dance is created through a series of movement. Any movement can be construed as a dance. For example, cars weaving in and out...

Ginger Cox: What is Dance?

What is Dance? I don't know right now. Dance is constantly changing and reinventing itself. It's asking me to do the same. Just when...

Kelly Buwalda: What is Dance?

For something I have studied and loved so much, it is one of the hardest questions I have had to answer! Maybe it means...

What is Dance: Sixteen One Sentence Answers by New York based choreographers

Sixteen New York based choreographers answer the question "what is dance?" They then all order no-whip soy macciatos.

Emily Bufferd: What is Dance?

I feel that dance is so open to interpretation that putting a definition to it could never fully encompass all that it is. ...

Caitlin Trainor: What is Dance?

I am not sure if I can put a tag on what dance is exactly, not sure that I can pinpoint what makes sense...

Krista Racho-Jansen: What is Dance?

movement through space over time; deliberate trajectories; joy; self expression through physical movement; self questioning/imaging/thinking through physical movement

Creating ‘My Ocean is never blue’ by Daniel Burkholder

"Creating this work is a multi-year research project into water, and its various meanings – personal, ecological, societal and political. It is also a lens to explore composition: how meaning is affected by shifting structure and its context."

Susana Weingarten on DanceVert at Dance Place

Having recently relocated with her partner from Ohio, Susana Weingarten writes about the creation of DanceVert's first concert in the D.C. area.

Progress Report by Sharna Fabiano

My creative process is first and foremost about listening. On one level, it is listening to myself. On another level, it is listening for a match between what I feel compelled or inspired to say, and what I see in the world around me.

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Three Poems by Sandra S. McRae

Winter Solstice We drive in the darkpast the open fieldsinto the neighborhood:Millions of lights on the housesin the trees—the world a-twinkle with hopewhile overhead a...

One Poem by Sarah Karowski

Kindly i want to diein the same way daddytakes care of tarantulas—kindly. pick me upby the leg & chuckme out the way. Sarah Karowski (she/her) is...

Street Scene by Vincent Casaregola

Street Scene Early evening heat rises frompavements, from cement and asphalt,carrying a scent slightly sour,slightly acrid—oily and tar-like. Outside the café, beyond its fenced-intables, a large...
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