Recognizing that it has been an emotionally difficult, sorrowful, frightening week for this country and especially Black people… as we watch rebellions springing in multiple cities around our nation sparked by the callous murder of George Floyd. As a human, a black human I am heartbroken and emotionally exhausted... However what hurt and disappointed me more was the absence of thev voices of the Ballet companies who are working so hard at Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.... I saw almost NO ballet companies acknowledging the happenings. Companies, artistic directors, school directors, colleagues who some of whom I have come to consider friends, allies…. their organizational feeds looked like quarantine business as usual digital class, digital seasons, recipes Tik Toks…

After going to bed with the vision of the Minneapolis police precinct ablaze I woke to the travesty of CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his crew arrested live on TV. Something in me broke, and I had to speak out, and call out my colleagues. Your silence is complicity, your silence is violence…. I went on a rant and well, here is it. I will have an article on the subject coming out on Dancemagazine.org shortly