Opinion
Tutus Bring Joy to Nigeria While Dubai Swallows a Dance School in Senegal
What headlines reveal about institutional decolonization
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Perspectives
Watch Me
By Loïc Magliano — A Pole Dancer on Cabaret, Theft, and the French-American Gaze
Features
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.
Reviews
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.
Essays
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.
Conversations
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.
Conversations
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.
Reviews
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.
Reviews
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.
Short Reads
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.
Conversations
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.
Profiles
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."