Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

‘Tis the season in New York City when buildings and subways turn on fans and pretend that moving sticky damp air around is the same as turning on the AC

After four months and a whole tube of cadmium orange, I’m ALMOST done with my first oil painting!

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I’m grateful for this opportunity to interview another Hard of Hearing dancer. Disability is rarely talked about in the ballet field, & navigating it gets very lonely. But in the words of Fiona, “it’s not something to be ashamed of at all. It’s just something about you—that’s the way you are.” 🦻🩰

“female female partnering just doesn’t work” oh okay so you’re boring???? photos by Raquel Beauchamp, choreo by me

“female female partnering just doesn’t work” oh okay so you’re boring???? photos by Raquel Beauchamp, choreo by me

All this administration does is put every single nonprofit and institution into a trolley problem of either sacrificing trans people or hurting everyone else by eliminating federal funding. It won't end with us. They'll do this with every minority until it's only white men who are left.

#queertheballet American Ballet Theatre dancers Kyra Coco and Ingrid Thoms in Petalwing for The Joyce Theater #ballet

the world sucks, here’s a queer pas de deux I’m choreographing

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

I’m really sad about the TikTok ban. There’s not a lot of places that ballet dancers can have opinions and think critically and candidly about our field. For a brief time, TikTok offered that to me, and it made me feel way less alone.

I’m hard of hearing and I am going to a bar to watch the Traitors and I texted my friend that I realized the bar might not have captions on and she’s asking them to turn them on for me and I cannot tell you how much stress that takes off me being an ally is not very hard!

Just taught an entire class about how good criticism is beholden not to specific artists or businesses but the wider genre of the art itself, which is deserving of sustained attention, consideration and judgement. There's a lot of bad criticism, but fandom just doesn't (and shouldn't!) do that.

people love to hate women! like it’s deeper than that too but man people really really love to hate women!

For the love of dance, can people write dance criticism of Alvin Ailey without comparing every piece to Revelations? I know this phenomenon happens with NYCB and Balanchine works too, but it just feels so gross. It happens like every time Revelations is on the bill but also sometimes when it’s not!

The nutcracker is truly a CRAZY ballet like imagine if I told you we were going to see a ballet where the two principals don’t come in until the very end and the whole first act has tons of children and no classical ballet

Can someone point me to a classical Sugarplum fairy variation with stellar musicality? Like where you feel the music come alive? So many videos feel so disconnected from the music, sometimes choreographically but often literally the MP3 file is off

just wrote for the first time in multiple years and texted my fiancé to tell her, and I think I must be a writer again bc I had the most writerly text edit of all time

As usual, Republicans do not object to "language policing," they object to terminology that represents greater societal acceptance of marginalized groups.

I’m a gay ballet choreographer, ballet dancer, and dance criticism enthusiast doing what I can to make the ballet field a more ethical and inclusive place. I make gay ballets! I built a strong network on twitter of dance enthusiasts and kinda miss it. Any of yall here?

Actually, having given it due consideration, it turns out that I do quite like echo chambers after all.