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Neil Ellis Orts
Neil Ellis Orts is a graduate of the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest and a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts fellow with the Institute for Dance Criticism.
A review of For the Beauty of the Church
Too much writing about the arts and Christianity is apologetic, explaining why the church should be concerned about artistic expression. Within that category is a lot of writing that voices high-minded generalities about "good art" and "bad art" and about who should and should not be making art.
The Crack Between the Worlds: A Dancer's Memoir of Loss, Faith, and Family
At the age of ten, Maggie Kast took a dance class with a former member of the Martha Graham Dance Compa...
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