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JoAnna Shaw
- May 16, 2020
- 3 min
Survival Strategies
Survival Strategies I took up pottery as a grand evasion, a way to avoid my desk, with its mountains of paperwork, the emails, phone...
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JoAnna Shaw
- May 12, 2020
- 7 min
HANDS
I am writing a book about The Equus Projects. In it are essays about our work, much of which focuses on our human capacity for...
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Rachel Keane
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
An Essay: Staying Open to Possibilities
In this new reality of COVID-19, we all have time to attend to plans and promises that were set aside because before this pandemic we...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min
Blink Moments
We blink when we are processing information - or perhaps at the moment when the information enters the brain. Blinking occurs at the...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Oct 30, 2019
- 5 min
Intelligence of Touch
There is a unique kind of intimacy that dance allows into our lives that no other form of human expression can achieve. We begin with...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Jul 18, 2019
- 6 min
If...Then Score with a Wild Mustang
When I began exploring the possibility of creating dance-dialgoues with horses, I was operating on pure instinct. My improvisational...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Jul 17, 2019
- 7 min
ASKing....
ASKing My dear friend Nita Little is a BIG personality. She is a master teacher, performer and scholar and a brilliant and inspiring...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Jan 29, 2019
- 4 min
Pasture Dances
Pasture Dances: The animals create the choreography Whether we realize it or not, site-specific performances are defined in large part...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Nov 23, 2018
- 9 min
Improvisation, the Specificity of the Ask
An arm draped over my shoulder, accompanied by a gentle nudge…If my improvisation partner offers a movement proposition, I join, possibly...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Aug 9, 2018
- 4 min
Riding the Skeleton, an inter-species perspective.
In 2005 I received the following email from Linda Parelli, a master equine trainer, seasoned equestrian and the brilliant mind...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Aug 5, 2018
- 3 min
Process and Perfection
Ten years ago I decided to learn the art of throwing a pot and filled my kitchen cupboards with bowls and coffee cups that progressed...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Aug 5, 2018
- 2 min
Blink Moments
We blink when we are processing information - or perhaps at the moment when the information enters the brain. Blinking occurs at the...
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Alexia Buono
- Aug 5, 2018
- 3 min
Collaborative Dialogues
How unique and refreshing to be in connection with another human being who is a listener as a teacher, a student as a director, and...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Aug 4, 2018
- 6 min
Vashon Island, WA
Vashon Island, WA Watching a sunset on Vashon Island feels like you are witnessing the sun falling off the edge of the earth. Vashon, or...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Jul 26, 2018
- 2 min
What’s in it for me?
I know many excellent equine trainers who use treats as learning incentives. My mistake was using a teaching strategy in a performance...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Jul 26, 2018
- 2 min
The Folding Score
A creation process that creates a visible after image... In November 2013, The Equus Projects was invited to teach a daylong session on...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- Jul 6, 2018
- 3 min
The Equus Projects in Ithaca, NY
The Equus Projects launches its multi-year plan to Bring the Arts to Rural America with residencies in Western New York State. There is...
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JoAnna Mendl Shaw
- May 7, 2018
- 1 min
Zurich Tanz
Site Work in Zurich Equus Artistic Director JoAnna Mendl Shaw has been teaching and creating work in Zurich since 1992, collaborating...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Jun 5, 2017
- 3 min
Dancing at the Edge of Cruelty
In 2005 we collaborated with a brilliant video artist, Janet Biggs, who taught us a great deal about creating imagery by stripping away...
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JoAnna Shaw
- Jun 5, 2017
- 4 min
Task-ness and Choreography
I love to watch dancers who comfortably inhabit their own bodies with no protective layers or pretense. They are completely present and...
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