Artist Stories

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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Elizabeth Lentz

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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    David Dorfman

    How has coming of age in Chicago affected or inspired your dance practice?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Julie Mayo

    What Is Dance?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Julia Rhoads

    How do appropriation and copyright inform your work?
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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Jiba Anderson, Griot Enterprises

    In what ways have you become more legal-savvy in your artistic career?
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    Arts Professional Story
    How does a dance artist in Chicago go about applying for a job as an arts integration educator?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Celia Weiss Bambara

    African-Based Contemporary Dance: Translating Tradition
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    Artist Story
    How can art-making impact social and political issues?
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    Arts Professional Story
    How and why was the Chicago Fringe Festival conceived?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Stephanie Clemens

    Why did you start re-staging historical works of choreography and how did you choose the works you reconstruct?
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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Jay Franke, Chicago Dancing Company

    What inspired the Chicago Dancing Festival and how did you choose the artists and venue?
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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Mark Hackman

    Is your concert dance piece producer-friendly (aka Are you a sellout?) I’ve got a math formula to find out.
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Winifred Haun

    Who are the choreographers in your collective Circle in the Square and how do you pick who the invited artists will be?
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    Arts Professional Story
    I understand that you have an ongoing relationship with Chicago?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Darrell Jones

    Balancing physical and conceptual realms
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    Arts Professional Story
    Art, Arts Advocacy and You
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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Gail Kalver

    From artist to administrator in one swell swoop….
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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Martin Kamenski, Rockstar CPA

    The Artist vs. Taxes: Not the David and Goliath Battle You Think It Is
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Michelle Kranicke

    Making Our Own Opportunities
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    Arts Professional Story

    Arts Professional Story:
    Lucia Mauro, Arts Writer and Critic

    How did you develop your niche as an Arts Writer and Dance Critic?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Dan Merlo

    How did you decide to start photographing dance?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Jonathan Meyer

    Rethinking the Non-Profit Model
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    Arts Professional Story
    How did you found the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago?
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    Artist Story

    Artist Story:
    Margaret Morris

    Dance! Hah! Good God, Man! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'?
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    Artist Story
    One Company. Ten Artistic Directors: How do you collaborate as dancers choreographing, choreographers dancing, and more?