Email Author Merilyn Jackson

2001 Stories by Merilyn Jackson

• Heroine Chic

  published September 27, 2001

  Fred Ho, a kick-ass composer and baritone saxophonist, is also a formidable political activist against racism. A New Yorker, he was in San... More >>

• Here Today, Gone Tamale

  published August 16, 2001

  Sometimes finding great Mexican food turns out to be an adventure.One of the most amusing versions I've ever had was in Krakow, Poland, last... More >>

• No Shirt, No Service

  published July 19, 2001

  On a brutally icy afternoon last February, my husband and I wandered the streets of Manhattan's Tribeca, looking for warmth and something light to... More >>

• The Pound of Music

  published June 14, 2001

  Audiences for STOMP, the dance and percussion spectacle that swept the globe in the 1990s, range in age from toddler to... More >>

• Whirl Première

  published June 7, 2001

  Typically, communities fail to take note of their artists until they go out and make it in the bigger world. Nonetheless, two who got started here... More >>

• Dance Fervor

  published May 17, 2001

  It took youthful optimism and determination for Carrie Miller to start a company when she was fresh out of college. When the teenage Miller, a... More >>

• Sun Dance

  published April 5, 2001

  When German expressionist choreographer Susanne Linke visited Senegal in 1998, her collaboration with the men of Compagnie Jant-Bi produced Le... More >>

• Dance Fervor

  published March 22, 2001

  Over 40 years, an estimated 19 million people around the world have seen Alvin Ailey's first major work, Revelations, and this is your... More >>

• Heavy Subjects, Light Feet

  published March 8, 2001

  Phoenix choreographer Frances Cohen was first to helm a resident modern dance company, Centre Dance Ensemble, at the Herberger Theater... More >>

• Feet Accompli

  published March 1, 2001

  Two nude dancers pace ritualistically toward an offstage light, their bodies breathtakingly painted by tattoo artist George Long. It takes hours... More >>

• Primal Dream

  published February 8, 2001

  The audience inhaled sharply as Eiko and Koma began When Nights Were Dark at the American Dance Festival at Duke University last... More >>

• Just Pas de Duo It

  published January 25, 2001

  When I first saw Glen Velez perform at Philadelphia's 1987 New Music America Festival, I knew I was seeing and hearing a drummer who made his own... More >>

• Bodies of Evidence

  published January 18, 2001

  You could call it powerhouse dancing. Or, depending on the piece Ronald K. Brown's Evidence is performing, you could call it power house... More >>

• Desert Pie

  published January 4, 2001

  With its Peace of the Pie program Saturday at Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Desert Dance Theatre celebrates world diversity... More >>