"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.

"But one of my most extraordinary experiences as an artist, and I carry it with me still, was on Igbo Landing in St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, where I went to do research on Gullah culture. And I went to meditate, but I went to this particular site, which is off Dunbar Creek, and it’s a place where, the place where a great group of Igbo people had jumped off a slave ship, to avoid being made slaves."

Dance is a lot of work. Liz Harler collects artistic whims and puts them into a neat, ordered tabular format.

What is dance? Well that depends on how one defines dance. The existence of this journal is a reflection of the fact that we...

"The dancer identity has many layers. Some are positive (graceful, strong, beautiful), some negative (poor, insecure, dumb.)"

"Our popular culture, and even our art, is increasingly spoon-feed to us...The upsetting of expectation is too often obvious, creating too immediately its own expectations.."

Daniel Singh writes about why he makes dances, and the kind of dance he's working to make.

Choreographer Vincent Thomas writes about the development of his new evening-length work, "The Grandmother Project."