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Dance

The Illusion That Anything Ever Happened

There seems to be a vacuum that opens up in Togetherness. That is a true statement taken alone. The italics indicate that we’re talking about Danielle Ross’ latest work, which debuted this week at Bodyvox. This work extends from an idea rooted in historical narrative, building from actual and fictitious stories, and considers the eventual […]

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America Political Economy

The Cognitive Dissonance of Midterms 2014

Midterms 2014 point to America’s cognitive dissonance. We statistically hate congress more than Obama, yet the congress that has been selected leads right back to the policies that we voted against this year. In three states, voters simultaneously unseated democratic senators and pushed forward democrat labor policy: a minimum wage raise. Arkansas, Alaska, and South […]

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America Opinion

A Great Time to Blame Bush

George W. Bush Jr. looks at his own gallery, April 2014. “Their vacancy, their stubborn refusal to offer anything beyond the most basic signal of a famous person’s identity, is precisely what Bush will have wanted. It is futile to gaze at these paintings and discover anything of importance about Bush’s foreign policy, or even […]

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Dance Interdisciplinary

The Crucial Movement of Insignificant Specs

The Word Hand is a Reminder of Temporality Imagine that a line is drawn everywhere you move and this line follows you, leaving a permanent impression wherever you are. This trail would become a rod between my writing desk and the kitchen—it would circle the couch and spin off to the bathroom with more regularity […]

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Report War & Peace

Deconstructing ISIL (Part 3)

Official White House photo by Pete Souza The Red Line: Intervention in Syria and Iraq On August 21st, 2013, a chemical attack targets a Syrian rebel-held territory near Damascus, with surface rockets containing sarin, a deadly gas, killing more than one thousand civilians at once, and wounding more than three thousand. War cries for airstrikes against […]