Opinion
contemporary dance is not a neutral description but a colonial framing of the present
artist's statement by patric da cunha
Perspectives
Perspectives
What an Auditorium Full of Pakistani Farmers Taught Me About Dance
Naween A. Mangi spent twenty years working in rural Sindh and assumed farming communities had no use for dance. A choreographer's tour through small towns proved her wrong, and changed how she thinks about what "community development" means.
Essays
The Waltz I Cannot Stop
Maria Pickart can trace the shame historically, culturally, pedagogically. She has written papers on it. And then she walks into the studio, and the imagined audience assembles before she has taken a single step.
Essays
The Hired Body: Being Mary Kate(s)
Mary Kate Sheehan is a freelance dancer trained to be versatile, to embody any aesthetic, to deliver whatever the room required. In this essay, she traces what happens when that is no longer enough, and the long search for a dancing self that belongs to no one but her.
Perspectives
Variations in Second Position, Sitting Down
In the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon, transdisciplinary artist Myrna Renaud films her shadow as she moves through rehabilitation exercises on a park bench; second position reduced to what a broken wrist allows. The video and this text are the same work.
Opinion
Tutus Bring Joy to Nigeria While Dubai Swallows a Dance School in Senegal
What headlines reveal about institutional decolonization
Perspectives
Watch Me
By Loïc Magliano — A Pole Dancer on Cabaret, Theft, and the French-American Gaze
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.
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.
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.