Adam McKinney was born in Milwaukee and raised in Whitefish Bay as gay, native, Black and a Jewish man intersecting identities that he has long explored in his work. An accomplished dancer, choreographer and teacher, McKinney became artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre earlier this year. The Chronicle spoke to McKinney in late
Gone is opening the clamshell for a VHS videotape. There's no more hefting big cases of 35-millimeter reel-to-reel tapes. Much has changed, but after 26 years, the three women at the heart of the Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival are still at it. The festival, an annual project of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish