Dance isn’t a performance; it’s life. That’s the philosophy of Sally Gross, one of the original members of the postmodern Judson Dance Theater, which is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Gross talks with Steve Paulson about the power of movement and breath, the influence of John Cage, and why dance requires stillness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with some leading Darwin experts and goes to see Darwin's letters at Cambridge University in England to try to get at Darwin's views on God.
Sven Birkerts tried to write a novel, but realized he had more success writing about fiction than writing fiction. He tells Steve Paulson how he became a literary critic.
Woody Tasch is the author of "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered."
Native American writer Sherman Alexie talks with Steve Paulson about his stories, the film “Smoke Signals,” and being Indian in America.
Thomas Campanella tells Jim Fleming the Elm tree once spread its arching branches over trees from one end of the country to the other, but in the end it was loved to death.
In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself. Here's lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano reading from his “Children of the Days.”
You can also listen to our extended conversation with him.
Steve Paulson reports on the state of Chinese literature today. He talks with Annie Wang, Nobel Prize Laureate Gao Xingjian and National Book Award winner Ha Jin.
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