PUBLICATIONS
Merilyn Jackson
Selected Publications List 1999 – 2005
FEATURE ARTICLES Dance and Theater
Philadelphia Inquirer: DanceBoom! 1/05; Festival Universal African Dance 1/05; DanceBoom! 1/04; Shut Up and Dance, 3/04; Phrenic/Grupo Corpo at Jacob’s Pillow, 7/04; Fringe Festival Preview, 9/04; Season Preview and Listings, 9/04; DanceBoom! 1/03; DanceCelebration 20th Anniversary, 4/03; Nederlands Dance 5/03. Shall we Dance? 8/03. Season Preview, 9/03 Fringe Preview, 9/03; DanceBoom! 1/02; Marshall: One and Only You, 2/02; Koresh 10th Anniv. 4/02 Parsons: Too Many Cooks, 4/02; Tattoo/White Oak 5/01; Poland Proves Challenging Tour, 8/01; Season Promises Best…, 9/01; Seasonal Dances With Spice 12/01. Ferdydurke, 2/00; Eleanor Antin, 6/00; Taiko Drums, 6/00; Fringe Festival, 9/00; Dance Season, 9/00. 2000 Feet Festival Cover, 6/99; Fringe, 9/99; Dance Season, 9/99; Headlong/Bessie Award, 9/99. DanceTeacher Magazine: Cover on Joan Myers Brown, Philadanco Founder, 7/03. Dance Spirit Magazine: City Focus/Phoenix, 3/01. The Warsaw Voice: It’s Raining Dance, 7/01. Philadelphia Magazine: Fall Dance, 9/01; Streb, 11/00. Phoenix New Times: Senegalese Compagnie Jant-Bi, 4/02; The Pound of Music/Stomp, 6/02. Just pas de Duo it, 1/01; Tattoo 3/01; Polish Dancer, 12/00. Strings Attached, 2/99; Memory Shards, 2/99; Pina Bausch, 10/99. Dance Magazine: Aging Dancers, Ageless Dance, 11/01; Contemporary Dance Lights Up a Polish City, 12/01; The New York Times: In Honor of Wildness and Wit, 11/01. ScottsdaleLife: Diavolo, Ballet AZ, H. T. Chen, Mar/Apr. ‘01 David Parsons and Movement Source Mar/Apr. ‘02 MIT Technology Review: Dancing in the Fast Lane May/June ‘99. Pocket Exchange: Can Dance let the Body Age? 6/99. ETCMontreal: Tempe – Montreal: 12/99.
DANCE ADVANCES
Philadelphia Magazine: Limon 5/01; Perks Dance 10/01; Silesian Dance Theater 11/01; Xmas Philes 12/01. Phoenix New Times: Mark Morris 1/02. Pie 1/01; RK Brown 1/01; Eiko & Koma 2/01; Center 3/01; Alvin Ailey 3/01; Fred Ho 9/01. Diavolo 4/00; Streb 10/00; Bale Folclorico 11/00; Nijinsky/Wozniak 11/00; BAZ Nutcracker 12/00. Bros. in Arms 5/99; Riverdance 5/99; Step Class 8/99; Rivernorth, Carmina and Do Brazil 11/99.
DANCE REVIEWS
Philadelphia Inquirer: Archedream, Dancing Inept; Lunar Sea; Rennie Harris; Turner; US/Japan Exchange, Championship Performance, all 1/05. Morris Shows Breadth, 1/04; Hubbard, Sydney Dance, PAB Taming of the Shrew, 2/04; Ravel Project, Merian Soto, Shut Up and Dance, Les Ballets Jazz De Montreal, 3/05; PAB, R & B, Pilobolus, Dancer’s Injury, 4/05; Alvin Ailey, New Leja, 5/05; PAB Swan Lake, Jeanne Ruddy, Melanie Stewart, Midsummer Night’s Dream, 6/05; Phrenic/Arts Bank, 8/05; Six Fringe Reviews, 9/05; Tongue Smell Color, 10/04; NY Dance Exchange, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, PAB Slaughter, Baryshnikov Commanding in Christmas, Singing City, Philadanco11/04; PAB Nutcracker, Three Premieres, Taylor, Group Motion, Three Choreographers at Hess, 12/04; Lost Soles, Nicole Canuso, 1/03; Heidi Latsky, Body Vox, 2/03; Urban Tap/Kimmel, PAB Company B, 3/03; Miami Ballet, 4/03; PAB Cinderella, Eleone, Nederlands Dans Theater, Philadanco, Moxie, Anne Marie Mulgrew 5/03; Melanie Stewart, Megan Bridge, PAB Firebird, Group Motion, 6/03; Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, 7/03; Four edgy Premieres, 8/03; Six Fringe Reviews, Koresh 9/03; PAB Balanchine, Charles O. Anderson, Ballet Boyz, 10/03; PAB Dracula, NY Dance Exchange, Complexions, Horse’s Mouth, All the Right Moves, 11/03; Parsons Dance, PAB Nutcracker 12/03. Dance Exch. CEC, DanceBoom, Joe Chvala, Annen, 1/02; Shapiro & Smith, Burn the Floor, 2/02; Washington Ballet, Pucci Sport, 3/02; Vasquez, Uno Man, Lula, Koresh, 3/01; HT Chen, 4/02 Phrenic, 8/01; Nine Fringe Reviews, 9/01; Trapezius, Figures, 9/01; Cubano, Hubbard St., 10/01. Pittsburgh Ballet 1/00; Dorfman 2/00; Hubbard 3/00; Sean Curran 3/00; Mud/Turner 5/00; Pilobolus 5/00; Bebe Miller 5/00; Jody Sperling 5/00; Banking Hours 5/00; Philadanco 5/00; Moxie 6/00; Ruddy 6/00; Corymb 9/00; Tibbets and Neumann 9/00; Mano-a-mano 9/00; Three Dances 9/00; New Dance Co. 9/00; Two, Cute 9/00. APAP,1/99; Doug Varone 1/99; Rivernorth 3/99; Grossman 4/99; Greenberg 4/99; David Parker Bang 5/99; Dancehouse 5/99; Philadanco 5/99; Endzone 6/99; Tere O’Connor 9/99; Scrap Alley 9/99; Doug Elkins 9/22/99; @dance 9/99; PA Ballet 9/99. POINTE Magazine: In Arizona, An Enigmatic Mosaik, 9/04, For Ballet, A Perfect Split, 11/05.
FOOD
Phoenix New Times: Ring Her Chimes, 1/02; Hollywood and Wine, 3/02; Yippee Oy Vey, 3/02. No Shirt, No Service 7/01; Here Today, Gone Tamale, 8/01. Polish Christmas Eve 12/00; Philadelphia Daily News: Wigilia 12/00. Philadelphia Inquirer: Squash Blossoms 10/99.
BOOK REVIEWS
Philadelphia Inquirer: Dance with Demons, Lawrence, Putnam 6/01. Le Mariage, Diane Johnson, Dutton 5/00; Russell Banks Stories 6/00. Miss Nobody, Tryszna, Doubleday 1/99; Nijinsky Diary 3/99; Village of a Million Spirits, MacMillan, Steerforth Press 8/99; Peel My Love Like an Onion, Castillo, Doubleday 11/99. Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize Collected Poems, 4/98; Nureyev: His Life by Diane Solway, William Morrow and Company, 6/99.