Tag: yasmine rana

I have kept her photograph, which I purchased twenty-five years ago on my first trip to the Anne Frank House. I embarked on the narrow climb to the hiding place and later, the descent, and imagined all that had occurred in between.  I was attuned to the voices of visitors…

Playwright and Educator Yasmine Rana’s monologue from her new play, At the Barre is published in the Best Women’s Monologues of 2019. The anthology is available in bookstores as well as through Amazon. Click…

I’VE BEEN THINKING a lot about past friendships as I write this blog. My friendships I made in master ballet teacher’s Finis Jhung’s brilliant ballet classes at the Alvin Ailey Extension led me to reconsider my role as a friend.  Mr. Jhung’s classes led me to meditate on…