Washington D.C. 01
I used to be Resident Choreographer here. I don’t remember it. I remember thinking it was time to be done with it right around the time I was starting my own company. It was also around the time that Washington Ballet was turning into a unionized company. I remember the importance of simplifying life and…
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Coming back to Houston feels like I never left …though coming back to most places feels like I never left. Living so much of life in an airplane makes everywhere feel possible all the time. Turn the corner and you are in Brooklyn. Get out of the car and you are in Melbourne. On the flight last night…
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It is a common tenet of major religions that you surround yourself with the right people…people who can support your belief systems and not distract you from the path you choose. Whether you are religious or not, the people in your life can help you be the best parts of yourself, or they can commiserate…
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In the year 2000, I spent a fraught several months in Germany making a new work called The Difference Between Naked and Nude for The Stuttgart Ballet. The title was based on a passage in the book “Ways of Seeing” by the author John Berger, who died yesterday. “To be naked is to be oneself. To…
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REGRET I read Everything is Illuminated after I had just moved to Hell’s Kitchen in 2000-something. My apartment was constructed in such a way that the insufficient space was further rendered at least 50% useless. Impossible corners and pipes, a desperate kitchen in the middle of a long, narrow hallway, a dank triangle shaped bedroom…
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I’ve just begun making a new piece for San Francisco Ballet. The first week of making a dance is so weird. This idea I have been mulling around and imagining and twisting apart and understanding is suddenly, with full-force, becoming reality. It’s like I’ve been living amongst all of these empty balloons with smashed-up designs…
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