
Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on “Serving Her Muse”
Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris describes what inspires her to “follow her muse.”
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris describes what inspires her to “follow her muse.”
We spoke to interdisciplinary artists Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips (2017) who describe themselves as “afrofuturistic cultural producers.”
We spoke to Annie Wilson (2017), a choreographer and performer whose work intertwines experimental dance, humor, feminist practice, and audience interaction.
For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, philosopher Marie Bardet reflects on the presumed “paradoxical” idea of dancing in a museum.
We spoke to poet Julia Bloch (2017) whose lyric and prose poems blend the personal and the political to, she says, “negotiate tensions between individual forms of expression and webs of social meaning.”
Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol explains why durational performance “fights our cult of speed."
We spoke to Brenda Dixon Gottschild (2017) whose 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page”—an “embodied, subjunctive approach to research writing.”
We spoke to poet M. Nzadi Keita (2017), whose work weaves intricate narratives with historical research and vivid imagery in both lyric and prose forms.
Pew Fellows and media artists Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty on creating community-engaged work, the best advice they ever received, and more.
We spoke to documentary filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe (2017), who creates intimate, character-driven stories rooted in racial justice and advocacy.