Features
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.
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Features
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.
Features
Waro, the Bastard Hero
At a world music festival in Norway, a chance encounter with a Réunionaise Grandmaster becomes a meditation on hybridity, belonging, and the labels we use to contain each other.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Perspectives
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.
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.
Profiles
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.
Perspectives
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.