By: 2011 Guest Choreographer Jennifer Glaws So, what do jazz teachers like to do when they have some time off? Take jazz classes of course. Being from Chicago myself, I love to go back whenever I can and indulge in classes I do not get to consistently experience during the academic school year. There is […]

By Karla Grotting (2011 Choreographer) The roots of jazz go deep. They reach across an ocean. African rhythms so sophisticated they can reproduce the words of their language using the pitch, timbre and syncopations of the drum. It’s a powerful means of communication. Polyrhythmic and polymetric, its movement is a sharing of rhythms by a […]

By Ellen Keane (Partner-in-Jazz-Crimes to 2011 Choreographer Cathy Keane Wind) (A little background info: Cathy Keane Wind and Ellen Keane, Artistic Directors of Keane Sense of Rhythm, were recently brought to Poland as Guest Teachers and Performers. This and the last blog shared with us some of their experiences :)) I find myself sitting in […]

By Cathy Keane Wind (2011 Choreographer) Awakened by my mouth pasted shut, darkness, and in the distance the sound of birds and waves, I wonder where I am?  I am lying back in a chair and as I open my eyes it is not the beach I see but the top of a salt cave. I […]

My experiences in New Orleans were expanding for my body, my soul, and of course, my mind. That said, I am going to focus in on one topic I sifted through my mind from a teachers perspective quite a bit while I was there; the pedagogy of cultural dance forms. I have certainly had a […]

Erinn here, writing to you from the Big Easy, the great city of New Orleans! I am here for a week attending the New Orleans Dance Festival, a gathering of dance in it’s 15th year (www.nodancefestival.org). Festival organizer Beverly Trask (Tulane professor, check out her bio here) began the festival as a celebration of jazz […]

We received our very first grant for $10,000! This money will support the 2012 show and we can hardly wait! We want to thank the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund for helping us support many talented and deserving artists so they may create, present and share work that […]

Good Morning, folks! Heather and I are on a roll getting the 2011 production together, and could not be more excited to share with you what we have generated. Just to wet your jazz-dance palate a bit, here is a taste from the productions of the last couple of years; If you enjoyed the last […]

For our first ever open call, we received many solid, thoughtful, intriguing and high-quality submissions. The Rhythmically Speaking Programming Committee would like to thank the choreographers that submitted work for the outpouring of interest in our production. Rhythmically Speaking 2011 will feature the following choreographers; Emily Broeker Jennifer Glaws Karla Grotting Jolene Konkel Carrie Lande […]