Reading Time: 4 minutes I get dressed up to teach five days a week this semester. And while I still work on the weekends, I get to decide how I look.
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The Emotional Core of Dance
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sometimes dance moves you in unexpected ways, and all you can do is stay in the moment and feel everything that comes through you.
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#FolkloreThursday: Fixed-phrase vs. Free-phrase
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ever heard a tongue-twister? Then you’ve heard fixed-phrase folklore before. Here’s what it means in terms of other verbal arts genres.
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#FolkloreThursday: Coding
Reading Time: 3 minutes Heard of the hanky code? It’s one way a vulnerable community protects itself when displaying identity and sending messages. Read on to learn more.
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Survival Mode, Sadness, and Writing
Reading Time: 2 minutes When you find yourself sobbing in a movie theater bathroom, maybe it’s time to reconcile yourself with the fact that you’ve been sad for a while, and that this may in fact be impacting your writing.
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Of COURSE I’m a Folklorist Studying Emotional Labor
Reading Time: 2 minutes When we talk about folklore as the social glue that holds communities together, it brings emotional labor into sharp focus as an academic topic that has relevance both within and beyond the ivory tower.
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#FolkloreThursday: Performance
Reading Time: 3 minutes For all that I’m a performer, I’m still getting a grasp on performance studies. Here’s a brief intro to a complicated part of folklore.
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The Freedom to Suck at Something
Reading Time: 3 minutes When’s the last time you well & truly bit the dust trying to do something? I try to make sure I can answer in the affirmative every so often.
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#FolkloreThursday: Active vs. Passive Bearers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you the person who always messes up the punchline of a joke? You, friend, might be a passive bearer of folklore. Now that we have a more nuanced understanding of what folk groups are, we can dig a little deeper and ask what distinguishes the people in folk groups from one another. Who are […]
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I’m Not Interested in Performing for My Peers
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s an embarrassment of riches, to be a picky performer. Is it because I’m getting older, or more jaded, or what?