THRU Magazine Archive
Before the dancers came onto the floor at Polaris Dance Theater, this Saturday night for the Groovin Greenhouse performance, as part of Fertile Ground Festival, the floor shone an aquamarine blue in the dark theater, like an illusory pool under spotlight. From a corner speaker, M’Liss Quinnly’s voice broke the soft blue silence of the floor and hushed […]
I want to go for a walk in the woods with CA Guilfoyle. I don’t imagine we’d say much. I’d simply want to share in the silence of the forest around us, observe her as she lets it permeate her every sense. An astute lover of nature, her poems are odes to the natural world. […]
“I feel like I’m dissolving.” Clarity is a residence that we can’t always make out from a distance. It assembles itself sometimes only when we’ve exhausted the trail leading up to it. We know it’s there. We can see the outline and imagine what’s inside but sometimes it takes driving there and kicking open the door to truly get the […]
Many forms of genius are better than one. There is athletic genius, the kind demonstrated from professional dancers and athletes. In the case of, for example, the Super Bowl, that genius has no meaning without strategy, what I suppose I might call organizational genius. The coach and the whole structure of decision-making that leads to great […]
Turiya Autry is a poet, teacher, and performer. She is performing her one-woman show, Roots, Reality & Rhyme as part of the Fertile Ground Festival 2015. We talk about education, power dynamics, youth life and learning, while probing the motivations of artists and politicians in between. See links below for more information.