Gods, Monsters, and The Limits of Mastery at Melbourne's Dance Biennale

Leila Lois speaks to the artists of Melbourne's RISING Dance Biennale and reveals a programme that feels urgent, uncomfortably alive, and may have saved an important contemporary dance festival.

Tutus Bring Joy to Nigeria While Dubai Swallows a Dance School in Senegal

What headlines reveal about institutional decolonization

Watch Me

By Loïc Magliano — A Pole Dancer on Cabaret, Theft, and the French-American Gaze

Decipher

By Madison Vomastek — Madison traces her discovery of flow through two unlikely parallel, the hip-hop cipher and Forsythe's Improvisational Technologies, and finds the same thing at the heart of both: community, witnessing, and the freedom to be seen.

Akram Khan’s Giselle: Ten Years Later, a Different Ballet That Has Grown Into Itself

By Will McGregor — The 19th-century village is gone. In its place: a concrete wall, factory light, and bodies that already know their place. Ten years on, Akram Khan's Giselle has grown into its own weight.

Memory in Motion: Oral History, Dance, and the Practice of Holding Space

By Carol Pierre — A relationship with a choreographer reveals oral history as embodied practice. Like dance, research arranges testimonies, holds space, moves through memory with narrators, and performs stories that transform audiences into witnesses of alternative realities.

The Spectre and the Shih Tzu: Conversation with Gabriel Semerene

On dance floors lost and found, queer Palestine, languages that carry whole worlds, the slow burn of academia, and Mei, a blind Shih Tzu who knows more about love than most of us ever will.

From Minuets to Algorithms: Conversation with Katja Vaghi

The Swiss-Italian dance scholar on Baroque notation, digital bodies, and finding wabi-sabi in a hectic life.

NYCB Winter Season Opens with Balanchine's Radiant Serenade and Sensual Prodigal Son

By Leila Lois — NYCB's opening night offered everything: the pure joy of Serenade, the frank sensuality of a rarely staged Prodigal Son, and the athletic brilliance of Paquita. Leila Lois travels from the Southern Hemisphere to see performances that honor ballet's full emotional spectrum.

Tango Finds Its Theatre at RSA House

By Will McGregor — David Chartoriski and Yelena Odintsova navigate tango's essential paradox: a dance born in intimate embrace that becomes magnetic when performed. At Sofar Sounds' RSA House, they made the case for both.

Flesh and Origami by Michael O’Connor

Michael O'Connor discovers that paper folding reveals that human bodies work as archives of evolutionary folds where dancing, writing, and speech cross over each other. Through experiments with nine artists, he shows that the body isn't metaphorically like origami. It is origami.

Continual Becoming: Alina Belyagina on Performativity, Collapse, and Feminist Dramaturgy

From West Siberia to Munich, Alina Belyagina has turned periphery into method. Her new work fuses vogue and Slavic folk dance to explore how bodies migrate between traditions and carry memories that discourse hasn't yet mapped.