by Nancy Van Ness – USA – Their hats adorned with artificial flowers identify them at many of the protests in which I participate. The Grannies also show up on New York City’s Union Square to sing their signature anti-war…
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Perceived as “Dykes, Whores, Bitches”: 1 in 3 Military Women Experience Sexual Abuse
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know just how bad. Colonel Ann Wright, retired US Army, grabbed the audience’s attention at a panel called Women in the Military, hosted last month…
Tagged with: gender equality, Politics, Sexual Violence, United States, Violence Against Women, Women's Rights
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Art for a Time of Crisis
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – In a heap on the studio floor as though they had collapsed under some disaster, fallen birds present a scene of despair. I am drawn toward them. They are a very powerful artistic…
Tagged with: activism, Arts & Culture, Dance, handicrafts, Politics, United States
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Broadway Corporations like Disney Make Millions as Stagehands Strike to Save Homes, Jobs
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – I cross 42nd Street and walk up Times Square. It is a cold, windy, rainy day but I had promised to come. I continue past the army recruiting center and the police headquarters;…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Corporations, Media, New York City, Strikes & Boycotts, theater, United States
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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Artists Make Art Because They Must
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – Forty Years Ago – I was flying. The other dancers and I, in lines, executed jumps across the studio, immediately turning and coming back – jumping over and over again – propelled by…
The Life or Slow Death of American Artists
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – As director of a performing ensemble, one of the joys of my life is to support other artists and witness their work. There is nothing more satisfying than watching my young colleague Lena…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Dance, Education, United States, woman artists, youth
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Unreal Beauty Is Dangerous to the Soul
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – I know what I look like, more than most people. I study photographs and film footage of myself dancing in a unitard assiduously, in order to hone my work. Not many people scrutinize…
Tagged with: Art, Arts & Culture, beauty, Dance, film, self image, The Beauty Myth, United States
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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
