Tag: cutting

A Cut Above: Everything You Need to Know About Cutting Contests

A cutting contest at the 2010 L.A. Tap Festival. Photo by Samantha Scipio. Alaman Diadhiou entered his first cutting contest—an improv-based competition in which individual dancers must face off and perform on the spot to a set tempo while trying to impress a panel of judges and avoid getting cut—at the D.C. Tap Festival in […]

An Inside Look At The Dangerous World Of Cutting

“I was trying to do my homework and I could not concentrate because I felt so crummy,” Dana* remembers. Nothing specific had happened, she just felt awful and she couldn’t figure out why. “I came across my tweezers and picked them up to put them away when, I don’t know where the idea came from, […]