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Emily Wells

Emily Wells is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles, at work on a book about 1800's French hysteria and contemporary chronic illness. She has an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside, and now teaches writing at UC Irvine.



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Angry Ballerinas

Essay

September 2019

Emily Wells

Essay

September 2019

Balanchine, the Wilis, and Collective Female Anger in Ballet   Growing up in ballet, I occasionally trained with a visiting instructor who had danced...

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poetry

November 2016

Gentle

Harriet Moore

poetry

November 2016

Forgive me Sister for I have sinned it’s been seconds since my last confession. I sit in the dark...

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October 2014

Noise & Cardboard: Object Collection's Operaticism

Ellery Royston

Object Collection

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October 2014

The set is made of painted cardboard. Four performers grab clothes from a large pile and feedback emanates from...

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September 2013

9/11 Emerging

Joseph McElroy

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September 2013

Others have it worse, have had, will always. ‘We,’ though, own the record now for largest building collapse.  ...

 

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