High Performance #69

High Performance #69
Spring/Summer 1995

Table of Contents

FEATURES

Living with the Doors Open
An interview with choreographer Blondell Cummings, by Veta Goler

We Are All Connected
Elders Share the Arts builds bridges across the generation gap, by Linda Frye Burnham and Susan Perlstein

After the Fall
California Institute of the Arts after the earthquake--a photo-journal, photographs by Steven A. Gunther

What's Needed Now
A Call for Courage, Intelligence, Art, Judgment and Guile, by Arlene Goldbard

The Selma Project
Case study of an arts project in the historic Civil Rights city, by Bob Leonard

Broken Silence, Visible Wounds
An artist's verbal and visual reflection on engaged artists in her native Canada, by Caffyn Kelley

Concentric Circles
Interview with independent curator Mary Jane Jacob, by Carole Tormollan

Yes in My Front Yard
Public participation in the public art process, by Marie Gee

The Hiroshima Suite
A painter's portfolio and text preceding the 50th Anniversary of the bomb, by Clayton Campbell

PROFILES

Project Row Houses
Art in the House, by Shaila Dewan

Katherine Dunham
Choreographing a Way of Life, by Barbara L. Kensey

The Lesbian Avengers
Directed Action, by Carolyn Shapiro

Black Liberation Radio
Struggling for Air, by Laurie Palmer

PERSPECTIVES

The NEA at the Brink
by Sarah S. Lutman

Long Live Performance Art!
an email missive

.Art Historian Descending a Staircase
by Sarah Vowell.

The Art of the Benefit Auction
by Marschel Paul

.Keep the Arts--and Kids--In School
by Linda Frye Burnham

CYBERARTS

Finding Art on the Internet
by Beth Kanter

SOUND.

American Stories, American Dreams
by Sarah Vowell

PRINTED MATTER

"Year of the Indian" from First Indian on the Moon
by Sherman Alexie

DEPARTMENTS

Guns and Moses
editorial by Steven Durland

Public Broadcasting: Is There No Alternative?
running commentary by Linda Frye Burnham

Products
Review of new books, audio, video

Hot Shorts
News and announcements

The Tacit Observer
a satirical newspaper by Steven Durland

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