The funny thing about wishes? Sometimes all it takes to make them come true, is a first step.
I love collaborating and who better to collaborate with than Pam.
Pam taught Dance History last fall. I suggested teaching a quick-hands-on, “create-in-a-minute” photo transfer project to cement the learning Pam had guided.
Afterwards, Pam asked that I make a “little something” like a small poster, a 2’ collage or wall sculpture to honor the student work. Something simple. Perhaps portable. A “not too much” space, tactile thing.
Well, ideas jumped around in my head like grasshoppers and before we knew it, in my mind, the student work was hanging off the ceiling or expansively draping across the hallway, or floating dramatically skyward with theater smoke and blue flashing lights, until finally…the “little something“ became a full on visual/performing arts exhibit in the B Gallery.
Yes! Wish coming true!
Pam teaches with the message that knowledge is only rumor unless it lives in the muscle. We looked for kinetic possibilities in structure and placement to give the exhibit a lively pulse and brawny interactional feel.
The two of us thought every jumpy idea that came into our heads was a gift to explore. Dark chocolate bars and steaming hot mochas also aided in creating more leaping conceptual deep thoughts worth investigating.
So - in the B Gallery is what happened to the student work. Jump right in!

Linda Ost

I make dances that exist in time and space that disappear once the performative moment passes. There is some safety in this lack of permanence that I have come to appreciate and also find quite thrilling.

To make something concrete, something that can stick around…like visual artists do…well I think that is quite brave and nothing I have dared try before. Man have I learned a lot through this process and have a refreshed respect for all the makers of things in our world. 

If you haven’t made something recently you should. You can even give Linda a call. She’ll help you along.

Pam Kuntz

We hope you will make your way over to the Performing Arts Center on WWU’s campus May 6-8 to see Dance in Concert. There you will experience Right to Recognition, the stage version. Don’t miss it while you have the chance - and you only have that one weekend - so don’t blow it because it will indeed just disappear.