Opinion
contemporary dance is not a neutral description but a colonial framing of the present
artist's statement by patric da cunha
Opinion
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.
Opinion
Tutus Bring Joy to Nigeria While Dubai Swallows a Dance School in Senegal
What headlines reveal about institutional decolonization