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Watch Me
By Loïc Magliano — A Pole Dancer on Cabaret, Theft, and the French-American Gaze
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Physics of Letting Go
By Suzanne Fischer — On witnessing a paper performance at Munich's Brandhorst Museum.
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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.
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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.
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The Art of Being Touched by the Untouchable
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.
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The Bearable Lightness of Flow
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?"
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Drops of Dance: How Small Movements Can Extinguish a Burning World
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.
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The Secret of "Bim Bim Bim:" Where Dance and Poetry Meet in Creative Flow
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.