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In the meantime, enjoy some of our selected reads:
Choreographer Sofia Greben Tracks Migration Through Muscle Memory in "kösh"
Ahead of the premiere of kösh, Hamburg-based dance artist Sofia Greben breaks down her somatic practice, club culture influences, and the concept of nomadic movement.

From Minuets to Algorithms: Conversation with Katja Vaghi
The Swiss-Italian dance scholar on Baroque notation, digital bodies, and finding wabi-sabi in a hectic life.

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.

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.

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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