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Mathematical, collaborative, dancing genius — Merce Cunningham

June 14, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Saying that dance is mathematical is the worst possible thing you could say to an aspiring performer. Odds are, if you are good at barre, you are terrible in calculus. And yet what most dancers and musicians, for that matter, don’t  realize is that both disciplines rely on more higher mathematical skills than a marketing professional or 75% of all business managers. For dancers, a deep understanding of time which is articulated through even and weighted beats must be immediately, rationally and kinesthetically […]

Categories: dance | theatre | music • Tags: David Tudor, John Cage, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Points in Space, Radiohead, Rainforest, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth, Split Sides

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Trisha Brown at High Line – Dancing on the Rooftops!

June 11, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

In conjunction with my coverage of the opening of Phase 2 of the High Line this week, I am excited to share that Trisha Brown Dance Company has been performing Roof Piece along the HL this week. With dancers stationed on rooftops along the Southern stretch of the park, they will mimic each other’s movements.  This will be the first time that this piece, pictured above, will be performed on rooftops since it’s premier in 1973. Trisha Brown, a Judson Dance Theatre […]

Categories: dance | theatre | music • Tags: Barbican Gallery, Elizabeth Streb, High Line, Lady Gaga, Martha Graham, MCA, Merce Cunningham, Museum of Contemporary Art LA, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Whitney Museum

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Martha Graham Google Day, hooray!

Martha Graham Google Day, hooray!

May 11, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Dance lovers of the world rejoice – an animated Martha Graham is today’s google home page. Although I did not suffer through the number of hip wrenching Graham technique class hours that  KR did, I feel so proud to have participated in her legacy! So, in honor of what would have been Martha Graham’s 117th birthday, please enjoy some photos and videos. Interesting sidenote: Madonna moved to NYC to study with Graham and her company. Although she did not stay there, […]

Categories: dance | theatre | music • Tags: Madonna, Martha Graham

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Jeanette Joy Harris is an artist and writer located in Houston, Texas who is primarily interested in the intersection between the conceptual and the constructable. Her art works have been shown in galleries and juried shows in Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago Heights, and her academic interests include 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy with a particular interest in Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. 

She currently serves as Art Director and Editor of Owlcat Press, an independent, Memphis-based literary magazine and publishing house. She also writes her own arts and culture blog, jeanettejoyharris.com, which focuses on the interplay between high art and pop culture.

Like all good art writers, she has a day gig. For the past 15 years, Joy has been assisting professional services organizations with marketing and business development strategies. Most recently she has begun to develop presentations that focus on how businesses can benefit from the methods and processes of the creative industry.  

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