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.
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.
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.
By Leila Lois — Mirror worlds, celestial themes, and tongue-in-cheek queerness collide as two dance artists create, Scenarios, their most ambitious collaboration yet.
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.
By Sabrina Castillo Gallusser — Guatemala-based choreographer explores the shift from scientific planning to collaborative discovery in thirty years of dance-making.
By Suzanne Fischer — On witnessing a paper performance at Munich's Brandhorst Museum.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Features
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
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.
Features
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
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?"
Perspectives
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.
Reviews
By Will McGregor — Dance.Film.Performance reimagines the Icarus myth through cutting-edge motion-capture technology, contemporary choreography, and live electronic music—transforming ancient hubris into a mesmerizing meditation on modern ambition.
Perspectives
By Yara Al Khoury — Yara discovers how poetry and movement share the same heartbeat. From a summer dance camp to Bukowski's raw words, she explores what happens when we let go—and how art begins in the body before it reaches the page or stage.