Unlike a writer - who works alone until ‘ready’ for the editor - choreographers most frequently do not choreograph without another body, a human subject. Ideas are being observed and evaluated by your dancers, in front of your own public as it were, even as they are being created.

Dance is a form in which a choreographer tells a story or expresses thoughts/feelings through movement, not words. Dance can move you in ways...

Famed dance photographer Constantin Cacourakas describes his favorite experience as an artist.

Septime Webre, Artistic Director of the Washington Ballet describes his favorite experience as an artist.

Fabian Barnes, Aristic Director of the Dance Institute of Washington shares his favorite experience as an artist.

Interview with dance critic George Jackson, April 15, 2006

What has been really beautiful with this project is that there are so many similarities between the stories that I hear – nationally and internationally.

"I think all of my favorite experiences in dance have to do with the way they make me realize how much I don’t know about the world. I know that’s why I keep going to dance."

Dancer and Choreographer Jason Hartley describes his favorite experience as an artist.

I didn’t feel any pressure to be good. I didn’t feel any pressure for the music to be good. I really didn’t care. Unfortunately maybe it’s cause the pendulum had swung back from this incredibly stressful experience.