Short Reads
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.
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Profiles
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.
Short Reads
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.
Features
Kartellet: The Norwegian Cartel Redefining Male Intimacy Through Dance
Meet The Cartel: where folk dance becomes wrestling, audiences become collaborators, and trust is the most daring move of all.
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.
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
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.
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.