Interview with Erin Kilmurray, with help from Suzy Grant and Anna Normann. This story includes editorial support from CAR Dance Researcher Meida McNeal.

What's the story behind The Open Space Project? How was it conceived?
The Open Space Project is a grassroots organization that presents emerging and growing Chicago choreographers in a social atmosphere. more...

In today’s fragile economy, dance artists and companies are imagining new ways to support the making of creative works. This panel will explore how choreographers are working with extended projects from building a performance project in multiple stages to including web, writing, exhibition or educational components rather than creating a repertory of discrete works. How are dance artists finding multiple ways to fund different parts of their projects from different sources? more...

Artist Stories and Arts Professional Stories are brief essays, posted on Chicago Artists Resource, in which you share an element of your artistic process. By addressing pertinent questions and sharing experiences with others in the field, you provide solutions and inspiration to other artists. Over time, these "stories" become a living archive of creative activity in Chicago, a resource to both the art world and general public alike. more...

Interview with Rachel Thorne Germond.

I started dancing in my room with the door closed to Madonna as a child at the age of 12 or 13. My family lived in Tallahassee (FL), and I did gymnastics growing up. When I went to the University of Florida I studied Psychology. I was always interested in dance, so I took my first dance class there. I fell in love with it. It was something that I always wanted to do but I had been a little scared to try. more...