"I wrote this because of thoughts that came up while we were planning the Headlong Performance Institute and thinking with the faculty about how to train students in dance theater." - Amy
Dancing with the Dirt Eaters
Explanatorium Blog
We were invited to contribute to a blog at the Inquirer about the process of getting Explanatorium up and running. Amy, David, Andrew and Mark posted their thoughts, images and ideas about the inexplicable:
Amy's Shosha Blog
We taught for a week at Concord Academy and performed for their Summer Stages Series in the summer of 2007. Amy writes about her experience of Shosha for their blog here:
Amy's Notes on Hippie Elegy
For a lecture at Rutgers University in 2007, Amy prepared these notes about Hippie Elegy, aka "An Open Letter About Myself"
Amy's Dominican Diary
In May 2006 we brought Hippie Elegy to the Encuentro de Danza Contemporanea in Santo Domingo. Amy, Jeb and Anna learned how to live in the delicious way that they do in the Dominican Republic, thanks to Mundo Poy and Pedro Alejandro who devised and organized the EDANCO festival. Amy wrote about her experience here:
Dance Insider
In 2001, I started writing occasional articles for danceinsider. (visit the site; you'll be glad you did.) These five articles, technically reviews, were chances for me to explore what I (mostly) love about Philadelphia art and artists. So it's half dance criticism, half artist's journal. When I go back and read them now, they seem so damn optimistic, utopian even.
- Andrew Simonet
Kyoto Journals
In 2002, Headlong was selected to participate in the first US - Japan Exchange in Dance. Two Japanese artists, Takeshi Yazaki and Ko Murobushi, came to Philadelphia for two weeks and New York for two weeks. Then David and Andrew spent two weeks in Kyoto teaching, collaborating, and performing. We wrote these journals during the trip:
The initial exchange introduced us to the amazing Takeshi Yazaki. He and his company, Arrow Dance Communication, were our long-lost siblings, closer to us spiritually and artistically than any company we've ever encountered. We put together a project with Arrow and spent six weeks in Kyoto at the end of 2003, creating You Are So Beautiful. These journals are from that extended residency: