Clarke Blair -- doing the digging in science and in dance
Colleen Snell of Frog in Hand dance recommended I connect with Clarke Blair -- a woman studying science at the University of Toronto and maintaining a performance career as a dancer. I was thrilled to sit down with Clarke, without knowing much of anything about her. I felt awkward, at first, chatting with such a collected, intelligent young woman, but by the end I was simply inspired and energized. Since this interview I invited Clarke in as a dancer for some studio research I was doing as part of a science-art related fellowship and got to experience observing and dancing with this wonderful person, and this weekend Clarke and I are on a mixed bill in the pioneering series Dance Matters --see details below! Clarke has an incisive mind and body, and whatever she's doing, she will be curious and we will be intrigued. **** photo of Clarke Blair by Francesca Chudnoff LR: So tell me about your journey in art and in science. CB: I've been dancing for ever. I trained