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Jul 29, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | McKenna Johnson
Climate change is affecting the work of performing artists as well as creative artists in South Asia. A July conference in Dhaka brought scholars and performers together to discuss the nascent studies of the intersection of climate change and culture. Artists are using their art to address the climate crisis. Some art forms are being lost because of climate impacts. The work of young art students shows how nature is infused in art from an early age.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
thepulp.org | McKenna Johnson
On a recent evening at Missoula’s Westside Theater, choreographer Amy Ragsdale knelt at the edge of the stage, watching with a soft smile as her nine dancers laughed and swayed on the Marley floor, waiting for the music to start. The audience, made up of cast and crew for Westside’s newest dance show, 40 Over 40, seemed antsy, some chatting, some trying on costumes and wrangling kids, others reading books or knitting.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
“Therrrrrrrrrrrrrre’s hydrogen and helium….” The melody of “The Periodic Table Song” rang through the Open Space studio in the basement of the PARTV building. But it wasn’t a science class Liana Dillon and Isabela Sant’Anna-Skites were rehearsing for, it was a dance performance. As they belted out the names of scientific elements, two other dancers whipped out fouettés behind them. From a piano bench, visiting guest artist Barbara Lima sat watching as the scene descended into chaos.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
Sip happens, and staying hydrated is in style these days — I mean, have you seen all the hype over the Stanley Cups lately, followed by the slew of research articles and opinion pieces attempting to analyze our obsession with them?
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
It’s 2023, and Barbie is cool again. The sun rises over the horizon. The hair-raising sounds of a symphony sweep over a desert landscape as she takes center stage in her original black and white striped bathing dress, blonde hair curled up in plastic perfection, arms bendable past a 90-degree angle and tiny sunglasses perched on her head. Helen Mirren’s lovely voice rains down from heaven like a gift to our ears.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
I remember where I was when I first heard about Alabama’s Supreme Court decision regarding in vitro fertilization and the personhood-status of frozen embryos. It’s the same way I remember exactly where I was when I heard about the 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. I imagine it’s similar to the way my mom remembered getting the call about the twin towers while driving home from the fertility clinic seven months before my brother and I were born as successful IVF babies.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
My first college dating experience began — as I imagine many first dates at the University of Montana do — with an invitation to go down to the Clark Fork River after freshman orientation week. A few months later, that relationship ended with a religious lecture on how my widowed mother needed to remarry so I could have a proper father figure and if she didn’t, my brothers would likely end up in prison. Things didn’t get much better from there.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
For two years, I’ve praised the Lewis and Clark Villages as an underrated living option. It has cheaper rent than other student living apartments, prime access to the UDASH buses and clean facilities that feel like home after hanging up some string lights. But two weeks ago, I received the campus-wide Clery Act email about a reported assault at Cinnabar Court in the University Villages, practically kitty-corner to my apartment and only separated by the golf course.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
montanakaimin.com | McKenna Johnson
When Michael Beverley walked into the audition, he was already tense. It was like walking through the cafeteria on the first day of school. There was a lot to take in. Lots of fishnets, lots of heels, lots of personality, lots of competition. The audition, held at a local dance studio on a September morning, was for “The Rocky Horror Show Live!” at The Wilma.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
mackinacislandnews.com | McKenna Johnson
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