July 2023 Birthdays | Saturday, 07.01.2023
Here are the upcoming birthdays for the month of July 2023:
Monday, 7/3 - Jill Harris | Sarah Wiedenheft
Wednesday, 7/5 - Chris Rager
Thursday, 7/6 - Erik Scott Kimerer
Saturday, 7/8 - Rachael Lillis | Xander Mobus
Sunday, 7/9 - Kira Vincent-Davis | Tyler Walker
Tuesday, 7/11 - Cristina Valenzuela | Jason Liebrecht
Wednesday, 7/12 - Christine Marie Cabanos
Thursday, 7/13 - Kari Wahlgren | Sandy Fox
Friday, 7/14 - Mike McFarland
Sunday, 7/16 - Kira Buckland
Wednesday, 7/19 - Cherami Leigh | Jeannie Tirado | Reuben Langdon
Friday, 7/21 - Allison Sumrall
Saturday, 7/22 - James Arnold Taylor
Sunday, 7/23 - Blake Shepard | Dani Chambers | David Kaufman
Tuesday, 7/25 - Dave B. Mitchell
Thursday, 7/27 - Felecia Angelle
Saturday, 7/29 - Emily Neves
Sunday, 7/30 - Jerry Jewell
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Celebrate Bisexual Awareness Week with 18 Awesome Books with Bi Characters!
September 16th to 23rd is Bisexual Awareness Week, culminating in Bisexual Visibility Day on the last day! To celebrate, we cooked up a list of our 18 favorite books featuring bisexual characters!
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths and Magic by F. T. Lukens
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Guardian by priest
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
When the Stars Alight by Camilla Andrew
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
What are YOUR favorite books with bisexual protagonists? Tell us so we can get our read on even more!
This post was compiled with contributions from numerous Duck Prints Press contributors. We’ll have another post coming out on the 23rd, with Duck Prints Press publications featuring bi characters!
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BD - winners where are they now (incomplete)
I think someone requested this somewhere
Most females and recent males because there are just too many to do rn
At companies:
Miriam Gittens (s2013): Gibney Company
Alyssa Allen (s2014): Ballets Jazz Montreal
Brianne Sellars (s2014): Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Ashley Green (s2015): Alvin Ailey American dance Theater
Payton Johnson (j2012, t2015, s2017): L.A. Dance Project
Vivian Ruiz (s2019): Ballet BC
Kelis Robinson (t2018, s2020): The Batsheva Dance Company; The Juilliard School
Kiarra Waidelich (m2016, j2018, t2020): Royal Flux Company
Quinn Starner (t2017): New York City Ballet Corps de Ballet
Emma Sutherland (j2014, t2016): MashUp Contemporary Dance Co.
Sarah Pippin (t2011): Ballet BC
Timmy Blankenship (s2017): Sydney Dance Company; choreographer
Brady Farrar (m2014, j2017, t2021): ABT Junior Company
Easton Magliarditi (t2020): Royal Flux Company
Graham Feeny (t2015): Artistic associate at Gibney Company
Logan Hernandez (t2015): Göteborgs Operans Danskompani
Zenon Zubyk (t2013): Nederlands Dans Theater
Jonathan Wade (j2011, s2016): Rambert Dance Company
Wyeth Walker (s2017): Rubberband Dance Company
Faculty/teacher/choreography:
Lucy Vallely (t2015, s2018): Broadway Dance Center, freelance choreographer
Jayci Kalb ( j2011, t2014, s2016): The Dance Centre; Radio City Clara 2010
Taylor Sieve (s2016): Jump Dance Convention
Jenna Johnson (s2012): DWTS pro, 24 Seven Dance Convention
Jazzmin James (t2012, s2015): faculty several intensives
Jaycee Wilkins (j2015): Club Dance Studio
Sophia Lucia (j2014): Dancelab OC
Brynn Rumfallo (m2014): Strive Dance Workshop (own project)
Talia Seitel (m2012): Project 21 (part-time)
Lex Ishimoto (t2014, s2016): Jump Dance Convention
at University/college:
Ellie Wagner (s2019): Ohio State University Dance Team
Ella Horan (s2021): USC Kaufman
Kayla Mak (m2014, s2021): The Juilliard School; Radio City Clara 2014, 2015
Brianna Keingatti (s2022): The Juilliard School
Julia Lowe (s2023): USC Kaufman
Ava Wagner (j2018): University of Minnesota Dance Team
Avery Gay (m2015, j2017): University of Arizona School of Dance
Leara Stanley (m2011): Duke University
Sam Fine (s2023): USC Kaufman; Young Arts 2022
Seth Gibson: The Juilliard School
Alex Shulman (s2022): New York University Tisch Dance
Joziah German (m2014, t2018, s2020): The Juilliard School
Joey Gertin (t2018): The Juilliard School
Professional dancer/choreographer:
Simrin Player (t2014, s2017): The Voice, Missy Elliot, Justin Bieber, RBD
Jaxon Williard (s2021): Rihanna, Madonna, Lil Nas X
D'Angelo Castro (j2012, t2016, s2019): DWTS troupe
Findlay Mcconnell (t2017, s2019): Tate McRace
Christian Smith (s2018): Tate McRae, NBC's Saved by the Bell
Keanu Uchida (s2014): Dancer the Musical; also a big advocate for protecting dancers and calling out inappropriate behaviour
Eric Schloesser (s2014): Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, J Balvin; choreographer, creative director, designer; Dana Foglia Dance Company
Other/a combo of things:
Bianca Melchior (s2011): actor, dancer, singer; Nick Jonas, Alessia Cara, own music; faculty at On The Floor dance competition
Tate McRae (m2013, j2015, t2018): singer/songwriter
Bostyn Brown (j2016, t2019): Professional assistant at DanceOne
Megan Goldstein (t2017); dancer, photographer
Christina Ricucci (t2013): actor, musician, dancer
Bella Klassen (j2017): The Space, vlogger
Kalani Hilliker (j2013): influencer, teaching at several places (Danceplex, MBA)
Elliana Walmsley (m2018): influencer, DWTS Junior, Radio City Clara 2019
Diana Pombo (m2016): singer/songwriter, dancer, actor; Young Arts voice 2023+2024
Morgan Higgins (t2016, s2018): dancer, aerialist
Zelig Williams (s2013):dancer/actor: MJ the Musical, Hamilton
Daniel Gaymon (s2011): dancer/actor; Broadway (Cats, The Lion King); Hamilton national tour, La La Land
Ricky Ubeda (t2011, s2012): choreographer, actor; Steven Spielberg's West Side Story
Michael Hall (s2015): Saturday Night Fever the Musical, tv dancer in Cairo, Egypt; teacher
Julian Elia (t2014): Steven Spielberg's Westside Story, working on the development of a new Broadway musical
Sage Rosen (t2016): influencer; DWTS Junior
Ryan Maw (j2015, t2017): choreographer, dancer, actor: High School Musical: The Musical - The Series
Holden Maples (j2016, t2019): dancer, teacher, choreographer
Competing/not graduated honorable mentions:
Cameron Voorhees (m2018, j2021, t2023): Evolve Dance Complex; starting career as a teacher/choreographer
Crystal Huang (m2019, j2021, t2023): The Rock Center for Dance, Bayer Ballet Academy; Prix De Lausanne 2024, Young Arts 2024, Radio City Clara 2021
Hailey Bills (m2017, t2022): Center Stage Performing Arts Studio, DWTS Junior
Brightyn Brems (m2017): DWTS Junior
Avery Hall (t2022): Danceology; Young Arts 2023
Savannah Kristich (t2021): The Rock Center For Dance; Twyla Now
Savannah Manzel (m2020): Larkin Dance Studio, Radio City Clara 2023
Kya Massimino (m2021): Radio City Clara 2023
Ian Stegeman (m2019, j2021, t2023): Woodbury Dance Center, Young Arts 2024
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On Wednesday, New York governor Kathy Hochul shocked the state and the country when she announced she would indefinitely shelve New York City’s long-in-development congestion pricing scheme. The policy, in the works since 2007 and set to begin in just three weeks, was designed to relieve car traffic, curb road deaths, and send a billion dollars in annual funding to the city’s transit system by charging drivers up to $15 a day to enter the busiest parts of Manhattan, with rates highest at “peak hours.” (Truck drivers and some bus drivers could have paid more than $36 daily.) At heart, the idea is straightforward, if controversial: Make people pay for the roads they use.
But congestion pricing was also set to become one of the most ambitious American climate projects, maybe ever. It was meant to coax people out of their gas-guzzling vehicles, which are alone responsible for some 22 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and onto subways, buses, bicycles, and their feet. Policymakers, researchers, and environment nerds the world over have concluded that, even if the transition to electric vehicles were to happen at lightning speed, avoiding the worst of climate change is going to require fewer cars overall.
Now, the movement has seen a serious setback, in a country where decades of car-centric planning decisions mean many can only imagine getting around in one very specific way. Just a few years ago, cities from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Chicago began to study what pricing roads might look like. “Cities were watching to see what would happen in New York,” says Sarah Kaufman, who directs the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. “Now they can call it a ‘failure’ because it didn't go through.”
On Wednesday, Hochul said her about-face had to do with concerns about the city’s post-pandemic recovery. The congestion pricing plan faced lawsuits from New Jersey, where commuters argue they would face unfair financial burdens. Cameras and gantries, acquired and positioned to charge drivers while entering the zone, have already been installed in Manhattan, to the tune of some $500 million.
Kaufman, who says she was “flabbergasted” by Governor Hochul’s sudden announcement, says she is not sure where the policy goes from here. “If we can’t make courageous, and potentially less popular, moves in a city that has transit readily accessible, then I’m wondering where this can happen,” she says.
Other global cities have seen success with congestion schemes. London’s program, implemented in 2003, is still controversial among residents, but the government reports it has cut traffic in the targeted zone by a third. One 2020 study suggests the program has reduced pollutants, though exemptions for diesel buses have blunted its emissions effects. Stockholm’s program, launched in 2006, upped the city’s transit ridership, reduced the number of total miles locals traveled by car, and decreased emissions between 10 and 14 percent.
But in New York, the future of the program is unclear, and local politicians are currently scrambling to figure out how to cover the transit budget hole that would result from a last-minute nixing of the fee scheme. The city’s transit system is huge and sprawling: Five million people ride the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s buses and subways, almost double the number that fly every day in the US.
In New York, drivers entering the zone below Manhattan’s 60th Street would have been charged peak pricing of $15, but would have only faced the charge once a day. They would have paid $3.75 for off-peak hours. Taxi and ride-hail trips in the zone would have seen extra fees. After years of controversy and public debate, the state had carved out some congestion charge exemptions: some vehicles carrying people with disabilities would not have been charged, lower-income residents of the zone would have received a tax credit for their tolls; and low-income drivers would have been eligible for a 50 percent discount.
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