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Inside the Cycle of Self-Silencing: Bharatanatyam Meets the Politics of Healing
Choreographer Yashashree Rajendra Chakole uses classical Indian dance and contemporary movement to critique systemic mental health care.
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She Ritual : The Female Body as Archive, Offering, and Choreographic Site
Ling Huang's solo turns fan, rice, and red thread into physical restriction the body has to work against. Rainy J. reviews the performance.
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The Weight of Emptiness: A Review of Harper WANG’s Mo
Tianyi Li reviews Harper Wang's Mo, a dance film where emptiness becomes an active force, and the camera, shadow, and frame choreograph alongside the solitary performer.
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The Wind: A Dance Film Shaped by Landscape
A dance theatre work leaves the stage and enters the landscape. In mountains, beside waterfalls, on uneven ground, the body has to negotiate the world around it. Having seen both versions, Rainy J. reviews Ning Qiang's The Wind.
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Latex, Breath, and Resistance: Inside Alice Ripoll’s Adorno
Dila Yumurtaci reviews Alice Ripoll's Adorno, finding that beneath a striking mass of balloons lies a brilliant, vulnerable study on how our ordinary choices reconstruct who we are.
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'Nonstop Bodies': Against Isolated Geniuses
Rennie McDougall’s Nonstop Bodies strips the history of dance in New York away from the canon and hands it back to the streets. Next on our reading list.
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Akram Khan’s Giselle: Ten Years Later, a Different Ballet That Has Grown Into Itself
By Will McGregor — The 19th-century village is gone. In its place: a concrete wall, factory light, and bodies that already know their place. Ten years on, Akram Khan's Giselle has grown into its own weight.
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NYCB Winter Season Opens with Balanchine's Radiant Serenade and Sensual Prodigal Son
By Leila Lois — NYCB's opening night offered everything: the pure joy of Serenade, the frank sensuality of a rarely staged Prodigal Son, and the athletic brilliance of Paquita. Leila Lois travels from the Southern Hemisphere to see performances that honor ballet's full emotional spectrum.
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Tango Finds Its Theatre at RSA House
By Will McGregor — David Chartoriski and Yelena Odintsova navigate tango's essential paradox: a dance born in intimate embrace that becomes magnetic when performed. At Sofar Sounds' RSA House, they made the case for both.
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The Dance of Another: Dancing into oblivion in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018)
By Danica van de Velde — Luca Guadagnino's 2018 Suspiria weaponizes dance itself—where Argento's original used daggers, Guadagnino's pirouettes become instruments of destruction. Through Damien Jalet's visceral choreography, every movement embodies both creative force and annihilation.
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ICARUS: When Ancient Myth Meets Contemporary Innovation
By Will McGregor — Dance.Film.Performance reimagines the Icarus myth through cutting-edge motion-capture technology, contemporary choreography, and live electronic music—transforming ancient hubris into a mesmerizing meditation on modern ambition.