Perspectives
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.
Perspectives
The Physics of Letting Go
By Suzanne Fischer — On witnessing a paper performance at Munich's Brandhorst Museum.
Features
Gyung Moo Kim's Journey from Seoul Streets to Berlin Stages
From Seoul's hip-hop battles to Berlin's avant-garde stages, Korean dancer Gyung Moo Kim has built a career on embracing constraint and listening to what his body demand. His latest work emerges from a "retrocausal collaboration" that stretches across continents, and art forms.
Reviews
The Dance of Another: Dancing into oblivion in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018)
By Danica van de Velde — Luca Guadagnino's 2018 Suspiria weaponizes dance itself—where Argento's original used daggers, Guadagnino's pirouettes become instruments of destruction. Through Damien Jalet's visceral choreography, every movement embodies both creative force and annihilation.
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A Guide to Becoming a Dancer in a Conservative Society
By Nerda Khara — In a country where dance is often misunderstood or discouraged, Nerda carves a path of quiet resistance—merging dance, ritual, research, and teaching to claim movement as a way of life in Pakistan.
Perspectives
Neapolitan Delight: Dancing Tammuriate Under Vesuvius
By Sonja Kieser — Under the shadow of Vesuvius, a golden-voiced goldsmith hosts a feast where tradition and trance collide. As drums pulse, strangers become one in the hypnotic rhythm of the Tammuriata—a dance where leading and following blur, and modern Italy rediscovers its ancient soul.
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Kartellet: The Norwegian Cartel Redefining Male Intimacy Through Dance
In a world where men rarely dance together—let alone hug—a Norwegian troupe is turning masculinity inside out. Meet The Cartel: where folk dance becomes wrestling, audiences become collaborators, and trust is the most daring move of all.
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In Touch with the Dead: In Pursuit of Tatsumi Hijikata
Choy Ka Fai's extraordinary journey from Singapore to rural Japan to the gates of the underworld in pursuit of an artistic collaboration that transcends death itself.
Perspectives
The Art of Being Touched by the Untouchable
By Sandra Aguado Mucientes — A cultural misstep in Scotland opens her eyes to the many ways we connect—from the physical closeness of Mediterranean culture to the soul-deep touching that happens through art and genuine human encounters.
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Pierre Geagea: Dancing in a Soundless World
Pierre Geagea, a deaf Lebanese dancer, moves through a world that often forgets to listen. In a country where silence is mistaken for absence, he speaks through motion—teaching, protesting, insisting: I am here. His art is not just performance; it’s a manifesto written in breath and rhythm.
Perspectives
The Bearable Lightness of Flow
By Elze Visnevskyte — We’re taught to channel every thought, emotion, and creative impulse. But what if the deepest work is just… opening the floodgates?"
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Drops of Dance: How Small Movements Can Extinguish a Burning World
By Greta Pieropan — Amid a burning world, can dance be more than escape? A reflection on how movement rewires bodies, bridges divides, and quietly reshapes society—one drop at a time.