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An aspiring memoirist shares her top five challenges
After decades of trying and failing to abandon this whole damn memoir, I’m back at it again.
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Liz Lerman Shares Her “Me Too” Moment, Keynotes Women, Dance Leadership Conference
OVER 200 CHOREOGRAPHERS and dancers from 38 countries descended on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in late January for the second-ever Women in Dance Leadership Conference, the brainchild of [...]
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Polina, A Little Light in Dark Times
POLINA — A FILM co-directed by Valérie Müller and her husband, French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj — is just what I needed at this time of cultural and political peril. I’m always tense. I [...]
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A Feminist Contrarian’s Take on the Oscar Nominations
IT’S LATE, I know, with the Oscars moments away, but I have some last minute thoughts I need to share about some of this year’s Oscar nominations. Full disclosure, there are plot spoilers [...]
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Must-See New Film on Women, Faith, and Rape in War
THE INNOCENTS is an extraordinary new film from acclaimed French director Anne Fontaine. In Polish and French, it tells the true story of a young French Red Cross doctor, Mathilde (Lou de Laâge) [...]
