Essays
What Chinese Dance Reveals About the Politics of Posture
From courtly sleeves to military uniforms, the body remembers what texts forget. An essay by Kari Fu.
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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.
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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.
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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.