By Tin Gamboa What is the value of art? Who is it for? How can the arts be funded properly, and should it be when poverty is rampant? These urgent questions — as well as issues like large divides between social classes and extensive bureaucracy — frame the complicated needs of art-making in the Philippines.
By Kristen Lawson Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, which brings in contemporary dance and theatre from around the world, also offers annual seminars on critical dialogue. This summer I attended the English version of the seminar, Conversations on Performance, as an arts writer and marketer. (The seminar is also held in French.) Seventeen participants between the ages
By Kristen Lawson Betsy Wetzig has been interested in patterns of movement since she was very young. She began studying with Estelle Dennis in Baltimore at the age of 6, joining her dance company as their youngest member at 11, and creating her first choreography for them at 16. During this time, Dennis brought in