Why Writers Need Dress Rehearsal

Audience vs. the Self

Vanessa Blakeslee reading at the Seersucker Reading Series, Savannah, GA, 2015

It’s mid-October, and the dance studio buzzes with pre-show jabber: of sections that still challenge us in our now-memorized routines, of costume and prop woes. I’m spending more time there, renting the smaller rehearsal studio for practice sessions with fellow dancers. Classes have shifted focus to the fine-tuning and cleaning-up of routines, and much like in a writing…