Below you will find links to pages where I have written stories or articles that I am fond of and would like to share with people who are interested.

Q-Notes

• Green Living: Ethical economics enrich the planet
• Spirituality: Totems a link between Pride and nature
• Gay VP of PETA makes coffee talk with Q-Notes
• My pet, my friend, my familiar
• Physical Fitness: The seven paths of yoga
• Medical Wellness: The biology of love
• Spirituality: St. Joseph sets a high standard
• Integration of the Seven Selves
• A global perspective of LGBT history
• Build green for large-scale, long-term personal impact reduction

}Stereotypd{ (formerly Out In Asheville)

• Evangelical leader resigns after supporting civil unions
• Vatican implements exam to vet out pedophiles and gay priests
• Bigots Pour Doubt on Magic Johnson’s Status
• Overwhelming majority of LGBTQ students experience harassment
• LGBTQ Casualties of the Economic Downturn
• Sapphire crisis
• I am not your ex
• The gay marriage blah blah’s: Okay, new topic please…
• Five stresses that make me feel thankful
• American voters work my nerves

Devon Hunter

• Bubba: I Love My Bubba
• A Beautiful Conflict: Gems or doubloons?
• Correspondence from the He(ART)
• The Metamorphosis
• The See-Saw
• Unexpected Epiphanies
• Touch It
• Oops, I Did It Again
• Four-Dimensional Compliments
• Diamonds and Pearls

Mémoire: “My Life as an Undiscovered Pop Diva” (excerpts)

• Coming soon…

Jack Kirven began formal dance training at Coker College (South Carolina), where he completed Bachelors degrees in both Dance and French simultaneously in 1998. While an undergraduate he studied abroad in Tours, France at L’Institut de Touraine, and is capable of teaching in either English or French. Jack was the valedictorian for his college class.

Jack continued his training in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His studies focused on choreography, technique, performance, production, critical theory, design, and pedagogy. While working on his advanced degree he studied, taught, choreographed, and performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, New York City, Atlanta, Charlotte, Columbia, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and England. Jack completed his MFA in 2002.

Kirven’s teachers are some of the most talented artists in theater today and include Rhonda Austin Blanchard, Shiva Bailey, Michele Bloom, Nancy Zupp Bolden, Alain Charron (deceased), Mary Jo Dondlinger, Kim Epifano, William Forsythe (formerly of the Ballett Frankfurt), Simone Forti, David Gere, Rebecca Lazier, Victoria Marks, Peter Nabokov, David Roussève, Charles Tomlinson, Leslie Tunstall-Weiner, and Penelope Wyer.

As a professional, Jack has performed, choreographed, and/or collaborated with several companies including Raw Impressions Dance Theatre, the Greenville Ballet, Sapphire Moon Dance Ensemble, and [project incite]. He was a founding director of the Royal Corkscrew Dance Theatre (NYC), and is currently the co-Artistic Director of Viscera Dance Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina. As an educator, Kirven has taught at all levels and within a wide range of environments. He began his career in education at W. J. Keenan High School (Columbia, SC), and has also taught at Lander University, Columbia College, Coker College, Winthrop University, UNC-Charlotte, and UCLA.

Jack has published a resource book for lesson plans implementing kinesthetic learning across the curriculum, which was used as the framework for arts instruction in Richland County School District 1. He has written the first draft of the first novel in a three-part series, has written professionally for Q-Notes and Stereotyped (formerly Out In Asheville), and is currently maintaining a blog about his experiences as an exotic dancer while also working on a mémoire. Kirven was a nationally certified Personal Fitness Trainer through NASM for six years. His interests outside of dance include fitness, web design, history, fiction, poetry, foreign languages, design, multimedia projects, and mythology.

After a few false starts (as well as a lovely bottle of pinor noir and some technical support from a guy named Aaron who also likes Monty Python), I am now going to try (once again) to rebuild www.jackkirven.com – the site I’d built in 2006 was lovely in its day, but had gotten so outmoded that it neither functioned as a site, not represented me as a person/artist. Please be patient. When I come back in my cyber form, I shall have new media to share!