Issue Section: Shall We Dance
Shall We Dance? The Joy of Politics
Dancing through a difficult election season.—by Amy Brunvand On election night 2012 I was too scared to go to bed until I was absolutely sure that Barack Obama was going to be Pres …
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Shall We Dance? My 12 Years at CATALYST
How Amy became a dance writer and learned to love deadlines.by Amy Brunvand Dancers are the messengers of the gods.—Martha Graham My first dance article for CATALYST appeared …
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Shall We Dance? SaltDanceFest 2012
Bringing cutting-edge dance to SLC.by Amy Brunvand In April 2011, a dance review in the New Yorker magazine by Joan Acocella began like this: When you go to Eiko and Koma’s “Naked” …
READ MOREShall We Dance? Who’s culture? Our culture!
Reclaiming art, dance and music. A few months ago I went to an extraordinary workshop titled “Climate Change: Moving from Despair to Empowerment” that was based on Joann …
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Shall We Dance? Spring Performance Roundup
Modern dance, from rough to refined. They say that laws are like sausages—it’s best not to see them being made. It’s a different story when it comes to dance. Experimental performa …
READ MOREShall We Dance? Zumba
Dancing makes your workout fun again. “Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.”— …
READ MOREShall We Dance? December 2011
2011: A year of dance and revolution. Dance, when you’re broken open; Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off; Dance in the middle of the fighting; Dance in your blood; Dance, when y …
READ MOREShall We Dance?
Diwali: Remebering the Buddhist neighbors. More than 30 years ago when I was very young, I lived in a house across the street from a Krishna temple. What I mostly recall is the pla …
READ MOREShall We Dance? Vampires and More
Looking forward to the 2011-12 season of dance. Now that we have passed the fall equinox, nights are getting longer and darker which means it is time once again to get excited abou …
READ MOREShall We Dance?: Ring in the Old
Dance scenes in literature worth re-reading.by Amy Brunvand
READ MOREShall We Dance? Audiences Award Artists
Sugar Space and SB Dance help dancers reveal their hidden talent.by Amy Brunvand
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"Smile, observe and learn so you can plan your own version of these rites of passage. Learn from the past just don’t get a PhD in it."--Dennis Hinkamp on the good and bad nostalgic tendencies.
Slightly Off Center: September 2018 | Catalyst Magazine
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Nostalgia at the shallow end Nostalgia is a public pool filled with warm memories at the shallow end, but in the deep end there be monsters disguised as beguiling Sirens. You may enter smiling but drown there if you are not careful. Take your ex-spouse, ex-dog or ex any-no-longer-living human being....