The Dance Primer

This look at the blogroll is a bit shorter than usual, but I’d rather get them out there instead of waiting around in my drafts…

If you are an author on one of these blogs, I’d love for you add a little more about what your site is all about, or about yourself personally, in the comments. Thanks!

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** I always enjoy Carl’s dance blog and his thorough articles on swing, jazz and tap. He thinks deeply about the dance, and includes plenty of photo and video footage to supplement his writing.

*The Carole Edrich Weblog journals her thoughts working as a freelance writer with a focus “on travel combined with adventure, wine, luxury and dance.” Most of her posts are short and sweet, and from what I’ve read so far focused on tango.

*Chorebot isn’t really a blog, rather it’s a page about VICKI, a machine that generates choreography. It sounds very interesting, and I’ve seen musical performances that include electronic composers that sound similar.

*Makeda Thomas’ Great Dance blog, Choreographer’s Carnival, gives us a look at her life in Trinidad. She writes with the natural voice of an artist, and with a soul like that, I’m sure her dance is just as beautiful.

*We are treated to a weekly performance of video and written word on Clare Byrne’s Weekly Rites. This is another blog I would catagorize under performance art, moreso than dance, although the videos are about movement in her body… so I guess it depends on how you define both performance art and dance.

*Counter Critic is just that. From their own about page, “Counter Critic is an alternative resource for arts criticism and a forum for response to mainstream critics.”

*Critical Correspondence creates wonderful dialog both on the blog posts and in the forum, where dancers can register, write articles, and respond to each other.

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See also Parts I and II of this series.