Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Mary Moore Easter Season 2 Episode 25

In addition to the just-released From the Flutes of Our Bones (Nodin Press) Mary Moore Easter is the author of three other poetry books, The Body of the World (Minnesota Book Award in Poetry Finalist, 2019), Walking from Origins, and the forthcoming Free Papers: poems inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston, a Mississippi slave escaped to freedom in Minnesota in 1860 (2021). She edited Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: poems in the wake of racial injustice (Rain Taxi 2020).In a long dance career in Minnesota and nationally, her awards include a Bush Artist Fellowship in Choreography, and McKnight Awards in Choreography and in Interdisciplinary Arts from Intermedia Arts. She most recently performed as a dancer in Paula Mann’s Invisible.Her career as an independent dancer/choreographer and Founder and Director of Carleton College’s dance program overlapped with writing as a Cave Canem Fellow. She is a 2020 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Easter holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence and an M.A. in Music for Dancers from Goddard.