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.

Choreographing the Page: Lilia Di Bella on Structure, Flow, and the Reader's Experience

"‘I approached a Dance Mag's visual direction as a foundation, not a constraint,’ designer Lilia Di Bella said. In our conversation, she explains how she drew from her dance background to let shapes and colors flow through the pages, creating a space where "meaning is made together with the reader."

Can Photography Capture the Invisible Energies Moving Within Us?

Photographer Jennifer Lee Delić and dancer-fighter Rasmus Branders push against the limits of the camera. Using flowing fabrics and contrasts of light, their collaboration seeks to give form to the internal dance of masculine and feminine energy we all embody.

Dancing Beyond the Self by Tejaswini Loundo

Tejaswini Loundo moves through flow, ego-death, and the cosmic rhythm of Naṭarāja to ask what it truly means to dance beyond the self.

Bodies of Evidence: Sasha Portyannikova's Political Dance

In a country where protest is a crime, the dancing body itself becomes a site of resistance. Choreographer and researcher Sasha Portyannikova documents how artists under impossible conditions continue to create despite all risks.

Haunted Bodies & Minds by Vinícius Portella

The choreography of repression: a history of policing dance, from medieval plagues to Brazilian funk. An essay by Vinícius Portella.

Kalakeli: A Jungle Sanctuary of Movement and Play

Nestled in Goa’s jungles, Kala Keli is a dance retreat where movement becomes meditation. By day: contemporary, martial arts, and yoga in open-air studios. By night: bonfire circles and ecstatic beach dances. Here, rigor meets play and bodies remember their wild, joyful language.

The Rhythm of a Heartbeat: Karla Grotting on Choreographing Joy and Isolation in Whoville

Through the whimsy of Whoville, the choreographer reflects on jazz’s communal roots, the choreography of belonging, and what it means to dance joy into constraint.

Zoë Bastin’s Dance with the Ocean’s Force in "The Break"

By Leila Lois — On Williamstown Beach, Zoe Bastin stages a choreography of defiance and endurance, where the waves echo the body’s refusal to be contained.

A Match Made in Heaven: Conversation with Benjamin Hurley and Scott Elstermann

By Leila Lois — Mirror worlds, celestial themes, and tongue-in-cheek queerness collide as two dance artists create, Scenarios, their most ambitious collaboration yet.

When the Floor Kisses Back: Notes from a Life in Motion

By Melissa Jones — What happens when the body becomes both translator and translated? A mover's meditation on the sacred geography of studios, where flesh learns its own language through repetition, the ancient dialogue between effort and release.

The Choreography Wants: Learning to Listen in the Creative Process

By Sabrina Castillo Gallusser — Guatemala-based choreographer explores the shift from scientific planning to collaborative discovery in thirty years of dance-making.