TCR announces Issue 3.43, a special issue on dance, guest-edited by Aisha Sasha John and Alexa Solveig Mardon. In the summer of 2020, John and Mardon put out a call for visual or textual scores that dance artists employ in the creation of urgent, necessary, and medicinal work—as well as for writing that itself dances. They asked: What is it that you are dancing? This issue features the responses of over thirty contributors to that call including All Bodies Dance Project, Hannah Campbell & Xinyue Liu, Justine A. Chambers & Seika Boye, Michael Chang, Francesca Chudnoff, Jessica Cook, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Aisha Sasha John & Alexa Solveig Mardon, Adam Kinner, Lee Su-Feh, Dana Michel & Michael Nardone, Julie D. Mills, Chenise Mitchell, Andrea Nunes, Erin Poole & Johnny Mrym Spence, Coman Poon & Naishi Wang, Sarah Pritchard, Zahra Shahab, Malik Nashad Sharpe, B. Solomon, Eden Solomon, and Edisa Weeks.
Issue 3.43
Winter 2021: I’m looking for a way to dance
Print: $10
Digital: $8
Contributors
Poetry
Malik Nashad Sharpe: Good Things Come to Those Who Have a Bad Attitude
Malik Nashad Sharpe
Pessimism isn’t the disaster that we should be looking at. It’s optimism, it’s this
cruel motherfucker dressed in White and Floral and Sequins and yet is nothing but
Dagger and Sword.
Poetry
B. Solomon: THE SCREEN AND THE WIND OUTSIDE
B. Solomon
Everything we are
comes from gathering together.
Events
Issue 3.43 Virtual Launch
Capilano Review
Please join us in celebrating Issue 3.43: I’m looking for a way to dance with a special evening hosted by guest editors Aisha Sasha John and Alexa Solveig Mardon and featuring contributors to the issue.
In Conversation | Long-Form
I’M ALWAYS IN THIS BODY
Justine A. Chambers and Seika Boye
SB The morning after I exert, after leaving the ground, my body is screaming. I get carried away in the dancing of it — the push and the push and the repetitive action and the momentum.
Poetry
Lee Su-Feh: Scores for Dancing Across Distances
Lee Su-Feh
Openings and Obstacles
A set of tasks to dance with, alone or with others.
A set of tasks to solve problems with.
A set of tasks to fight with,
To love with.
Long-Form
Andrea Nunes: Giraffes
Andrea Nunes
My flip-fold was masterful on a different register, and it was performed for a select audience — that other gymgoer.
Announcements
Announcing the Winter 2021 Issue!
Capilano Review
TCR announces Issue 3.43 (winter, 2021), a special issue on dance, guest-edited by Aisha Sasha John and Alexa Solveig Mardon.
In Conversation
No Fixed Positions: A Dialogue on Yellow Towel with Dana Michel & Michael Nardone
Dana Michel and Michael Nardone
In scoring Yellow Towel, Michel and Nardone began with a series of questions to address the itinerant and obscure aspects of the work: What is legible in the moment of performance?
