About us
The DC Dance Blog is written by Amanda Abrams and Lotta Lundgren. We’re both living in DC, dancing and doing dance-related things (for example, Amanda runs the Improv Fest and Lotta dances with The Playground and is a contributor to the Swedish dance magazine “Danstidningen”).
So, we want this blog to be a place for discussions on all things dance-related. The black and white good-dance/bad-dance type reviews that certain papers tend to print does not do contemporary dance justice most of the time. In fact, it was a review in The Post of a Dance Place concert, “The Dragons Project: Powerplay” by Stephen Clapp and Laura Schandelmeier, that made us crave a forum where we could talk about dance in a different way. The review was not nuanced enough to do the work justice, we felt, and we realized there was no place in this city where more subtle, and maybe more experimental, ideas about dance could be aired.
We are also collaborators on choreography and improvisation projects, and this blog allows us to discuss some of the issues that arise during our rehearsals, and to ponder some of the conflicts we encounter while trying to figure out what we’re doing.
doing.
Anyone who wants to post something here is super welcome to do so and should email us.
Lastly, it’s worth mentioning that one of us (not saying who) is not from this country, and therefore has a slightly more Europeanized English than she wish (wishes?). In fact, another reason this blog came to life was because she felt a need to practice her writing in English, which isn’t one of her favourite things to do. She welcomes suggestions and corrections when crazy things happen in her writing.
So, welcome! Hope you enjoy.