"I'm an aspiring storyteller, I guess. But I've realized more and more that you don't have to have very many ingredients to imply that there's a story, without actually telling it."

The founder of dance at Glen Echo discusses the dance scene in Washington in the 1970s and 1980s, and how she worked with the Park Service to create one of the first major local public dance institutions.

Choreographer and Artistic Director of Khecari Dance shares his pointers to finding dance in Chicago.

"Blogs are a part of an ever-deepening pool of ‘new media’, and dance, like the rest of the world, is quickly diving in." Local dancer and writer Stephanie Yezek investigates the local pool.

"Middle Eastern dance schools play upon harem-mother-goddess fantasies of adult students. One has to give credit for business savvy, but what is being sacrificed in terms of art and ethics? In a bid to take over the local market, unskilled student dancers have been sent out on behalf of the studio to perform for fees that are either shockingly below the going rate or, which is worse, free."

Valerie Durham describes essential aspects of the Isador Duncan technique, including historical concerns relating to the study of the technique.

Dance allows one to express what cannot be expressed otherwise. Either do to the lack of words or the need to combine physicality with...

I will try to give a basic outline of how I work through my design process so that choreographers and designers may have a guide as to how to put their ideas together.

A thought from Virginia Woolf about the limitations of an individual to speak un-biased about questions of sex.

Judith Hanna considers why the press has focused on screen-writer Diablo Cody's prior profession, and how being a stripper may have positively influenced her current work.