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Follow the Joy: Sarah Reich's Tap Dance Journey Around the World
A documentary follows tap dancer Sarah Reich across the globe, and finds that rhythm, grief, and human connection speak the same language.
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Holding the Threads Together: Ballet Cymru at Forty
Leila Lois spends an afternoon in Newport to witness how a fiercely local, radically inclusive company is redefining classical ballet through the lens of Welsh heritage and contemporary bodies.
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Aneta Parpouli on Flora & Oizys, a Dance Performance Built From Greek Myth and Depression
Filmmaker and choreographer Aneta Parpouli discusses how an obscure figure from Hesiod's Theogony became the framework for a multimedia dance performance exploring modern mental health.
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Gods, Monsters, and The Limits of Mastery at Melbourne's Dance Biennale
Leila Lois speaks to the artists of Melbourne's RISING Dance Biennale and reveals a programme that feels urgent, uncomfortably alive, and may have saved an important contemporary dance festival.
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Decipher
By Madison Vomastek — Madison traces her discovery of flow through two unlikely parallel, the hip-hop cipher and Forsythe's Improvisational Technologies, and finds the same thing at the heart of both: community, witnessing, and the freedom to be seen.
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Continual Becoming: Alina Belyagina on Performativity, Collapse, and Feminist Dramaturgy
From West Siberia to Munich, Alina Belyagina has turned periphery into method. Her new work fuses vogue and Slavic folk dance to explore how bodies migrate between traditions and carry memories that discourse hasn't yet mapped.
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Choreographing the Page: Lilia Di Bella on Structure, Flow, and the Reader's Experience
"‘I approached a Dance Mag's visual direction as a foundation, not a constraint,’ designer Lilia Di Bella said. In our conversation, she explains how she drew from her dance background to let shapes and colors flow through the pages, creating a space where "meaning is made together with the reader."
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Can Photography Capture the Invisible Energies Moving Within Us?
Photographer Jennifer Lee Delić and dancer-fighter Rasmus Branders push against the limits of the camera. Using flowing fabrics and contrasts of light, their collaboration seeks to give form to the internal dance of masculine and feminine energy we all embody.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.