April 16, 2008 at 2:41 am · Filed under SLOAN, dance, artsjournal, audiences, performing arts
This June, Denver, Colorado will be the site of the National Performing Arts Conference which will bring the performing arts together at one 5-day event. The NPAC has teamed up with Artsjournal.comto put together a special blog - called Program Notes - leading up to the conference. The blog will have a total of 10 contributors (myself included) who will each post one entry referring to one of the session topics in the hopes of sparking some conversation for the conference itself. A pretty interesting idea and I’m honored to be part of such an amazing group of artists.
My post relating to the session topic “Best Practices for a Diverse and Commtied Audience” is up now, in addition to posts by Nico Muhly and Jaime Greene. In the weeks to come, look for posts by Jeremy Denk, Jeffrey Kahane, Greg Sandow, Hilary Hahn, Eva Yaa Asantewaa and others.
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March 9, 2007 at 7:24 pm · Filed under SLOAN, injuries, blogs, websites, doctors, physical therapy, critics, artsjournal, ny times
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Photo by Victor
Hey. I’m sorry if I’ve left you feeling a bit neglected lately. Really, I am. It’s not that I don’t care about you. I’ve just been busier than usual, and you know how hyper-focused I can get sometimes. I promise I’ll make it up to you…
Just kidding. Even though I haven’t been posting much recently, it’s been so fun to read the posts from our other contributors. You guys are so awesome! I love learning about new things from all of you!
I’ve been busy working on something new, which you’ll find out about soon. Meanwhile, working hard at physical therapy. Had a good day today. Actually got to do an exercise that looked something like ballet, and it didn’t hurt! Yay!
One of the many torture devices tools at West Side Dance Physical Therapy to help get my hip back on track.
One thing I would like to share is my frustration about the worker’s compensation doctor I saw recently. (Every so often they send you to one of their doctors for a check in. The last one I saw was very thorough and helpful. This one, not so much.) I don’t think this new doctor even asked how I was feeling. Just asked for dates of surgeries, if I was doing physical therapy, if I still needed physical therapy. Yes, and yes.
Then I got my report back, which included minor factual errors such as… Motor vehicle accident in 2001, MRI of left knee, MRI of right knee. Hmmm. I must be really bad off, since I don’t remember ANY of that ever happening to me. Ugh.
I don’t mean to give the doctor or the workers compensation team a hard time. I am so fortunate to have it, and fortunate that it functions as well as it does. It’s just hard when your health is your complete focus, and you want nothing but to get better and return to dancing, and the people and organizations you’re trusting are focused on so many people’s health all at once. It’s bound to get messed up from time to time. Maybe not the biggest deal to them, but it’s always a huge deal to the patient. Guess that’s why you’re always your own best advocate when it comes to this kind of stuff.
In the mean time, there’s been some interesting conversation going on over at Foot in Mouth, the ArtsJournal blog of Apollinaire Scherr, about dance critics at the New York Times. Even a post devoted to a comment by our friend Tonya!
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