Wendy Ewald and Liz Lerman are two artists who rely deeply on collaboration for their artworks and installations. They utilize various methods of listening and dialogue with their collaborators in order to achieve the ultimate collaborative project. To begin, Wendy Ewald is an artist who created a collaborative project titled…

Today, our society celebrates national “holidays” such as Thanksgiving and Columbus Day as a way of remembering what our founders and pioneers “did for our country”. These “holidays” are taught to us at a young age as to what they represent in order to mask the true events that occurred…

Community engagement is defined by a group of people coming together in order to accomplish a certain goal or achievement as a collective. As a modern-day society, we are accustomed to seeing community engagement being practiced in volunteer groups, specific programs, but not so much for art pieces. Often times…

All my life I have dealt with the stigma of being categorized in dance and have been continuously placed into boxes by others as to what defines movement and the different styles. When I first started dancing, I immediately loved hip hop, however, once I was dancing more I became…

José Limón was a pioneer for American modern dance in the 1940’s due to his blending of his Mexican heritage with American ideas into the modern repertoire at the time. He was one of the leaders of creating this assimilation of cultures into modern dance as it led inspiration to…

Dance, similar to every other sport or art form, has exemplified gender roles and biases within the course of study. Throughout the history of dance, males have always been forced to dance masculine, execute multiple tricks, and be strong enough to lift each girl in the air. Females have always…

Dance can be found being practiced, performed, and taught all across the world; every country on our planet has dancers and artists that move. The beauty in dance is that fundamentally, there are standards to technique, however, each person can be influenced to move in whichever way they choose. Since…

Art has a broad spectrum of “categories” such as dance, music, photos, and portraits that are fluid and always tend to blend in with one another. Generally, society attempts to present art with specific labels as we are taught these categories at a young age. Although these classifications may be…