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Amelia Ehrhardt: Curator and Optimist

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As Dancemakers launches into a new venture, the Mini Festival, it seems appropriate that I launch into an interview with Amelia Ehrhardt, Dancemakers' curator,  to get to know her better. Amelia and I have met a few times but never had a real conversation before this interview. It was a beauty.  Read on to hear about the Mini-Festival and most engrossingly about Amelia's values of community, politics and space-creating. Amelia Ehrhardt, photo by Yuula Benivolski LR: This is really exciting, the Mini-Festival …. AE: I’m really excited about it too. LR: How did the idea for the Festival come about? AE: It’s a festival of circumstances. We were in a situation of scheduling so many artists – international and those who work internationally. Dana Michel’s work we had planned and Antony Hamilton's work. But we discovered we could only present them within a week of each other. It was really tight timing to make this decision. The general manager [Frances Shakov] a