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Author: Lightsey Darst Lightsey  Darst

Lightsey Darst is a writer and critic based in Durham. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for both literature and dance criticism, as well as a Minnesota Book Award. Her books of poetry are Find the Girl and DANCE (2010 and 2013, both from Coffee House Press). Her criticism is online at mnartists.org, walkerart.org, The Huffington Post, and Bookslut.

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Performing Arts
1-29-2008

Dancing a Bridge: New York City Comes Uptown

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
1-14-2008

A One-Stop, Indispensable PR Cheatsheet for Dancers, Choreographers, and Alternative Performance

Lightsey Darst
1Production still from the (Not So) Suite, courtesy of Ballet of the Dolls
Performing Arts
12-17-2007

Not Your Niece’s Nutcracker: The Ballet of the Dolls’ “Nutcracker?! (not so) Suite”

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
12-4-2007

Choreographers’ Evening, from Nine Different Angles

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
11-19-2007

Toward a Greater Communion: Jérôme Bel and Pichet Klunchun, “Pichet Klunchun and myself”

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
10-22-2007

When Speed Kills: Houston Ballet

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
10-8-2007

Movement Architecture: Verve and Cringe

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
9-10-2007

To Say the Truth: Here It Is

Lightsey Darst
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Visual Art
6-21-2006

Paradoxes: Frank Big Bear at Bockley Gallery

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
12-2-2005

Chair, Sandbag, Rose: No Prescriptions

Lightsey Darst
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Performing Arts
10-10-2005

More Than One Black Act

Shannon Gibney
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Visual Art
7-28-2005

Jim Denomie: Finding the New Country in the Old

Lightsey Darst

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