Happening Soon
TUNE BACK (time)
This fall in Leipzig and Dresden, Germany, six performers move through loops, glitches, and half remembered images, tracing the body's back as the site where memory lives.
The Waltz I Cannot Stop
Maria Pickart can trace the shame historically, culturally, pedagogically. She has written papers on it. And then she walks into the studio, and the imagined audience assembles before she has taken a single step.
The Hired Body: Being Mary Kate(s)
Mary Kate Sheehan is a freelance dancer trained to be versatile, to embody any aesthetic, to deliver whatever the room required. In this essay, she traces what happens when that is no longer enough, and the long search for a dancing self that belongs to no one but her.
The Wind: A Dance Film Shaped by Landscape
A dance theatre work leaves the stage and enters the landscape. In mountains, beside waterfalls, on uneven ground, the body has to negotiate the world around it. Having seen both versions, Rainy J. reviews Ning Qiang's The Wind.
Against the Grain: How Mohsin Babar is Reclaiming Pakistani Dance After Decades of Neglect
"Dance chose me long before I chose dance." Choreographer Mohsin Babar on reclaiming Pakistani performance culture after decades of systemic neglect.
Latex, Breath, and Resistance: Inside Alice Ripoll’s Adorno
Dila Yumurtaci reviews Alice Ripoll's Adorno, finding that beneath a striking mass of balloons lies a brilliant, vulnerable study on how our ordinary choices reconstruct who we are.
'Nonstop Bodies': Against Isolated Geniuses
Rennie McDougall’s Nonstop Bodies strips the history of dance in New York away from the canon and hands it back to the streets. Next on our reading list.
Variations in Second Position, Sitting Down
In the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon, transdisciplinary artist Myrna Renaud films her shadow as she moves through rehabilitation exercises on a park bench; second position reduced to what a broken wrist allows. The video and this text are the same work.
Rose Barbantan on What It Takes to Live in New York as a Dancer
What seven years in New York looks like, and what it asks of you
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.