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5 Premises Culturally Sensitive

22 African Dance Is My Therapy 22 Perspectives on the Unique Health Benefits of West African Dance

11000 Free Pairs of Shoes Will Dance Across New York

A Ballerina Who Adds to the ʻPalette of Whatʼs Possibleʼ

A Choreographer's Creative Process in Real Time | Wayne McGregor | TED Talks

A Choreographer Diving Into Grief Looks to Whales

A Choreographer Gives ‘Dog Day Afternoon a Makeover

A Choreographer in Quarantine the Kind With a Guard in the Hall

A Choreographer Finds His Way Getting Lost in the Stars

A Choreographer Who Merges Art Activism and the Natural World

A Choreographer’s Handbook by Jonathan Burrows

A Dancers Life Chita Rivera on Working Hard and Learning From the Best

A Dramatic New Sculpture of a Drowning Girl in a Spanish River Hints at a Dark Future. It’s Titled “Tomorrow”

A Grim Long Hidden Truth Emerges in Art Native American Enslavement

A Model for Integrating Social and Creative Dance Forms in a Dance Education Course

A Moving Conversation A Curriculat Pathway from Private Dance Studio to Dance in Higher Education

A New Kind of Native American Dance Troupe

A Pioneering Black Ballerinas Life Story Comes to the Stage

A Race So Different by Joshua Takano Chambers Letson

A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture

A Showcase for Up and Comers With Some Vogueing and Shade Thrown

A Spinning Acrobat Learns to Love Change

A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe

A Walk in Their Heels Meet the Hustle Evangelist

A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home

Abstracting Dance Detaching Ourselves Habitual Perception of the Moving-Body

Access as an Ethic Giving Dance Myriad Points of Entry

ACTS OF TRANSFER TAYLOR

adrienne maree brown on vulnerability playfulness and keeping yourself honest

After a Severe Injury James Whiteside Is Dancing on a New Knee

Aging Dancers An Alternate Vision WENDY PERRON

Alan Cumming Uses Dance to Get at the Truth of Robert Burns

All You Have to Do to Dance Is Dance. Its that Movement Research

All you have to do to dance is dance by Stanley Love

Alignment by Landmarks - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

Alphabet of Movement

An “A” in Failure

An Ailey Dancers Career Blooms at the Company and Beyond

An Allegory for Our Times The Royals‘ Dante Project

An Inventory of Lost Delayed Art

An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths at the Met Museum

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Zooming into a new repertoire Bachtrack

Art for Life’s Sake by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Artists In a Time of Pandemic (ASL & Captioned) For US-Based Freelance Artists and Cultural Workers in all Disciplines

As Coronavirus Takes Its Toll, Dance Looks for Ways to Survive and Continue to Spread Art by Lauren Warnecke

At Bessie Awards Dancers Gather to Celebrate Pandemic Art

At City Ballet Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language

As Nutcracker Returns Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians

At Rennie Harriss Hip Hop University Teaching the Teachers

At River to River Dancers Tackle Weighty Topics With a Smile

At What Point Does Appreciation Become Cultural Appropriation

Aunts Is Back Turning City Blocks Into Dance Floors

Austin Goodwin Uses Humor to Tell It Like It Is

Bainbridge Cohen The Dynamics of Flow Fluid System

Ballet Could Be a Home for Autistic Dancers Like Me

Ballez Founder Katy Pyle Is Creating Sp...let on Their Own Terms

Ballroom Takes Root in Colombia. But Who Is It For?

Batsheva dance company- Three

Bebe Miller Company: A HISTORY excerpt

Beyond Male Female Nonbinary Dancers Forging Their Own Paths

Being Outside the Studio Has Expanded Our Identities

Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Biography of a Painting by Ben Shahn

Bill T. Jones and Eiko Otake: Opposites Guided by ‘Too-Muchness’

Bill-T. Jones Knows Life Will Change and His Art Too

Black creators wouldn’t dance on TikTok to the latest Megan Thee Stallion track. Here’s why their strike matters

Body knowledge, body prejudice

Bringing Consent to Ballet One Intimacy Workshop at a Time

Britney Spears Has Always Fought Back By Dancing.

Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage

Black Dance and Dancers and the White Public: A Prolegomenon to Problems of Definition

Butoh – “Twenty Years Ago We Were Crazy, Dirty, and Mad”

Camille A. Browns Latest Dance Challenge To Have Fun.

Carlos Acosta: Refashioning ballet with socially distanced tutus By Anna Bailey

Carolee Schneemann on Embodying the “Movement from Interior Thought to External Signification” by Artspace Editors

Cassandra Trenary's Mission: ‘Being as Human as Possible'

Choreographed Formality Like an Elaborate Masque

Choreography for the Camera An Historical Critical and Empiric

Choreography Under Lockdown by Jennifer Homans

Companies Are Rethinking Live Performan...ny Creative Solutions

Copyright for Choreography When is Copying a Dance a Copyright Violation

Could Augmented Reality Change How We Watch Dance

Could Dance Be a Weapon All Over Again

‘Create Share Unite A French Choreographers Vision

Crystal Pite's Emergence - excerpt

Curves of the Spine - Guided Meditation - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

Dallas Black Dance Theatre brings meaning..Jacobs Pillow debut The Boston Globe

Dance companies are adapting to digital...ety of offerings

Dance film demonstrates the act of survival in a harrowing year

Dance Is A Reflection Of Power: Short Dance Films Mobilize The Body And The Vote by Julia Dixon Evans

Dance Marathons were a Seedy, Exploitative, Bay Area Craze….by Greg Keraghosian

Dancers Say It’s Time to Talk About Ballet Companies That Body-Shame by Charlotte Barnett

Dancers silently lose themselves on Venice Beach Portland Press Herald

Dance Class Is in Session Flail Get Weird Unlock Yourself

Dances Communal Ethos Is Moving Into the Office and Boardroom

Dance Competition Culture and Commercial Dance

Dance Like a Butterfly: why Akram Khan embraced MMA

Dancers Voices Across Time in the Things Left Behind

Dances With Robots and Other Tales From the Outer Limits

Dancing Bodies That Proclaim Black Lives Matter

Dancing With Rice A Meditative Pas de Deux at the Met

David Gordon Digs Into His Archives for a Dance That Matters by Gia Kourlas

Dealing With the Disappointment of Getting COVID Canceled Dance Magazine

Decolonizing Flamenco Through Exploring Black Influences Dance Magazine

Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant Garde Literature the Humanities the World

Do College Dance Department Rankings Matter

Do Men Still Rule Ballet Let Us Count the Ways.

Do Words Matter on Stage? Essay by Jonathan Mandell

DOCILE BODIES

Does Abstraction Belong to White People

Down to Earth with Nietzsche: The Ethical Effects of Attitudes Towards Time and Body

Dramaturgy by Katherine Profeta

Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996

EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play by Elinor Fuchs

Emanuel Gat - Playing Games: The choreographic process

Embarrassment by Anne Bogart

EME X roll m4v 1

Entertainment Industry Choreographers Are Starting to Unionize

Ephrat Asherie Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial

Exploring the Dimensions of Black Power at Alvin Ailey

Exploring the use of Speech or Text in Dance Performance

Feeling movement Music and Dance

Female Self Empowerment through Dance

Finding a Voice and Bodies for an Untold South African Story

Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet Its Possible

For houseless women a fresh Momentum Oregon ArtsWatch

For This Glass Blower Art Is a Full Body Sport

French Choreographer Bintou Dembélé Opens the Avignon Festival

Flamenco and Fervor Inside Spains El Rocio Pilgrimage

Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable

From Her Algerian Familys Living Room to the Dance Stage

From Northern Ireland Dance as a ‘Physical Prayer

Future of dance in coronavirus era may...e between dancers audience

Gaby Diaz Is a ‘Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer'

Gaga as Metatechnique by Meghan Quinlan

Give Artists a Home

Grasping and Transforming the Embodied Experience of Oppression

Gravity and Responsibility in Film, TV, and Choreography by Liza Johnson and Malik Nahsad Sharpe

Grupo Corpo - Onqotô

Harmonics in Space by Sylvia Bodmer

Harmony in Space: a Perspective on the Work of Rudolf Laban

Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy Dancers Body Heat

Has Anyone Asked Artists What They Need

Heartbreak through by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Heel Strike: Art & Science - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

How 2021’s Venice Dance Biennale is Honoring Germaine Acogny, the Mother of Contemporary African Dance

How a Dance Class in Prison Helped Inmates Find Some Freedom

How an American Moved by Deborah Jowitt

How Dance Reshaped This Artist's Relationship to Her Prosthesis

How Dancing Helps Me Think, and Thinking Helps Me Dance by Glory M Liu

How Irish dance has become more diverse over the decades

How Robert Gottlieb Shaped Dance

How to Breathe New Life Into Martha Graham’s Dances Infuse Them With Art by Gia Kourlas

How to Cultivate Improvisation Skills and Live in the Moment

I Have No Desire to Produce a Performance Live or Livestreamed Until the Pandemic Is Over Ill Wait

Is Dance Enough to Meaningfully Address Something Like Black Lives Matter

How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic by Gia Kourlas

Its About the Art Form Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Turns 40

Immersive Art Exhibitions Spellbinding or Forgettable

Improv by Jonathan Burrows

In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water Dancers Find Their Flow

In London Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations

In Practice: Dancing Around Race by Gerard Casel

In the Age of Quarantine the World Dances Alone Together

Initiating Movement - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

Is Dance a Language? by Henrietta Bannerman

Is the Line Between Concert and Commercial Dance Finally Fading? by Suzannah Friscia

Its Story Time at Ballet Theater With a Best Seller Twist

Jenna Ortegas Wednesday Dance Is an Invitation Be Weird

Jennifer Muller Choreographer Whose Dances Told Human Tales Dies at 78

Jérôme Bel: ‘Dance is going through drastic change: we must stay in sync by Laura Cappelle

Joan Jonas in Conversation with Kristin Poor

Kandis Williams Envisions Dancing Bodies Without Borders

Kevin Locke Who Worked to Preserve Lakota Culture Dies at 68

LaTasha Barnes Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken

Lepecki Exhausting Dance

Lesbians in Ballet ‘Has Anyone Like Me...ked These Halls

Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor: Transglocal Politics and the Erasure of of the Latinx in the History of Queer Dance by Tim Lawrence

Lisa Nelson in conversation with Lisa Nelson Movement Research

LGTBQ Giselle Celebrates Individuality by Celia Wren

Lokaritgerd

Look to Dance to Understand the Everyday From Gia Kourlas

LYDIA OKRENT: The Work I Do Is Performing, Is Mine

Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together

Make Some Noise and Move: A Choreographer Provides Instructions by Siobhan Burke

Making the Impossible Possible With the Power of Movement. Dance Magazine

Making the Most of the Pause for the Black Dancer by Lou Fancher

Making Your Life as an Artist by Andrew Simonet

Many Bodies in One The Deep Practice of Jasmine Hearn

Martha Graham’s Legacy by Julie C. Van Camp

Meet Bobs Dance Shop World Class Vibe Curators

Meredith Monks Indras Net Takes the Stage in Amsterdam

Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension (Ann Hamilton's Tower, Oct 2008)

M3GAN Makes Us Ask Again Whos Afraid of Dancing Robots

Migrations of Gesture by Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness

Miguel Gutierrez Awarded New York Live Arts Residency

Mind–Body Connection Is Key for Dancers. But What Happens When It’s Too Intense? by Chava Pearl Lansky

Misty Copeland Creates Program to Bring More Diversity to Ballet

Morality by Terry Eagleton

Movement Communicates

Moving is Important. What if We Took the Hint, and Actually Paused? by Lauren Warnecke

Music Made Visible: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Interviewed by Ivan Talijancic

My Life as an Invisible Black Choreographer by Ja’ Malik

Nai Ni Chen Dance Company Looks to the Future With a New Artistic Team

Narrative Prosthesis

Neuroscience meets dance/movement therapy: Mirror neurons, the therapeutic process and empathy by Cynthia F. Berrol, Ph.D., ADTR∗

New Festival by Van Cleef Arpels to Bring Global Dance to New York

New LessonShoulders & Spine: The Chicken & the Egg - Amy Matthews

New York City Ballets Chun Wai Chan Is Breaking Barriers

New York City’s Gift of Motion A 1970s Tale

Notable Dance Books of 2020 WENDY PERRON

NYT article

Oh Ill Show You Paul Taylor and Alex Katzs Long Collaboration

On Grief and Gratitude A Conversation with Mary Ruefle

On Technique by Jill Randall

Opinion In the Age of A.I. Major in Being Human

Opinion The ‘West Side Story Remake We Didnt Need

Overcoming and denial disability and modern dance in the united states

Pam Tanowitzs Next Act -‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance

Performative Body Spaces by Markus Hallensleben

Performing and Creating as Equals Across the Age Gap

Performing whiteness on the competition stage I dance all styles

Phelan Unmarked

Pierre Lacotte Choreographer Who Aided a Defection Dies at 91

Pina Bauschs Dance Company Announces Steps Toward a New Era

Private Dances Lotto Royale Offers a Door to an Experience

Prosthetic Design Allows New Movement Possibilities & Creative Opportunities

Queer Butoh Finding Belonging in the Dance of Darkness

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke dances like no one’s watching and it’s a beauty to behold

Reclamation is an Imperative: Paloma McGregor and Damian Griffin Interviewed by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

Reconsidering the Relationship Between Social Media and Creative Practice. Dance Magazine

Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together

Reinstating Corporeality Feminism and Body Politics by Janet Wolff

Revealing the Labor of Dance Through Constant Motion

Review A Dance Searching for Harmony in an Unequal World

Review After Merce the Dances Go On and Go On to Inspire

Review Gibney Mines a Too Familiar Contemporary Dance Mode

Review On Faye Driscolls Life Raft Spinning Toward the Unknown

Robert Battle on Running Ailey ‘This I...Choreography Now

Roma Tell Their Stories in a Dance Theater Work From Berlin

Ronald K. Brown Has a Mantra ‘Absolute Victory Every Day

Review Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage

Saidiya Hartman Scenes of Subjection

Sarah Crowell Moves to Decolonize Dance San-Francisco Classical Voice

SANKAI JUKU official movie "KINKAN SHONEN" 2009 山海塾 - Butoh Dance 舞踏

Sensing Feeling and Action by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage

Shifting From a Creature of Habit to an Ever Evolving Artist Revitalized My Career

Silence vs. Quietness in the Body - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

Simone Fortis Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion

She Wants to Heal the World Through Second Line

Smoke Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater

Solange Knowles Will Debut Her First Ballet Score in September

Some Thoughts on Capital D Dance by Tara Sheena

Spatial relations Buckwalter

Staying Connected From Our Living Rooms: What It’s Like Dancing During a Pandemic by Elizabeth Schmuhl

Stephanie Dabney Electrifying Prima Ballerina Dies at 64

Story told is the history of the body

Storyboard P Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance

The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language by Michael Foucault

The Artists We Lost in 2022 in Their Words

The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter

The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet And Then Theres Solange

The Choreographers New Skill Set Working From Home Chava Pearl Lansky

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

THE ELEGANT SYMMETRY OF CRYSTALS R.C. EWING

The Everyday Avant Gardist Paul Taylors First Principles

The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show

The Freedom of Dancing in Quarantine

THE GOLDEN MEAN

The Growing Popularity of Somatic Practices

The Night Falls A Song and Dance Collaboration Straight Outta Swamplandia

The Offending Classic by Mark Franco

The Offending Classic Mass Review

The pandemic was the final blow for som...ors stay nimble

The Petronio Residency Center to Close After Six Year Run

The Position of Unthought by Saidiya Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson

The Role of Dance in African Culture

The Power of Dance to Help Us Cope With Trauma

The Role of Storytelling in the Theatre of the Twenty-First Century by Anne Bogart

The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn

The Story of Cinco de Mayo in Dance

The Trouble with the Male Dancer by Ramsey Burt

The Way They Move by Lizzie Widdicombe

The Urinary System

The Vogueing Protesters of Bogotá by Sandra E. Garcia

Theres Dance All Over No Matter Where You Look.

There’s No Social Distancing for Dancers. How Can the Show Go On

Thinking About Space in Invited and A Doll’s House at Germany’s Our Stage Festival by Verity Healey

This Ain’t No Disco-Alone in a Crowd at the Armory by Siobhan Burke

This Choreographer Directs a Physically Integrated Flamenco Company in Spain by Bridgit Lujan

This Documentary Will Make You Fall in Love With Jazz Dance All Over Again

This Is What It Felt Like to Be a Black Dancer Downtown in the 1960s

Three Views of ʻThe Motherboard Suite,ʼ Indoors, Outdoors and Online by Brian Seibert

Through the mailbox slot: Japanese theatre offers new viewing experience by Reuters staff

TikTok Is Dead Maybe Long Live TikTok Dance

Time Machine Buckwalter

Towards a framework of a semio

Trisha Brown on the Beach Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss

Twyla Tharp The Long Run

Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home

Understanding Viewpoints by Tatum Hunter

Using PNF to Uncover our Recruitment Patterns - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

Urban Bush Women: Caught In The Act

Urban Bush Women: Caught In The Act

Up on the Roof Flesh and Blood Dancers Move and Connect

"Vertical Road" / Akram Khan Company

Visual Art Dance Performance Art

Was it Me, or the Audience? A Dancer’s Conundrum Post-Performance by Chloe Woggon

Wayne McGregors new Untitled 2023 at the Royal Ballet

When Your Choreography Is Literally Fire Billy Bell Combines His Dance Career With Design

What Set tWitch Apart as a Dancer His Generous Spirit

What an 80s Feeling Flashdance Turns 40

What Comes After a Storm From Twyla Tharp a Softer World

What I’m Doing When I’m Selling Out Open Space

What Is Embodiment? - Amy Matthews [EmbodiedAnatomy.net]

What Is the Power of Unity Phelans Dancing ‘Im Clay

When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer

We Need to Distinguish “Trust” and “Care” in Partnering by Ilya Vidrin, PhD

What Can a Choreographer Do When They Want to Take Their Work in a New Direction? Donald Byrd Shares Some Insights

What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show They Complete the Picture.

What I’m Doing When I’m Selling Out by Dorothy Dubrule

What Is It Like to Watch Live Dance Again Amazing

Whether Dancing or Still the Body in ‘Ema Tells the Story

When a Dance Collective Was Like a Rock Band

When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer by Ellen Jacobs

When the lively arts go virtual by Irene Hsiao

Why Christianity Put Away its Dancing Shoes by Kathryn Dickason

Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings

Why Some Dancers Are Finding an Outlet in Burlesque

Why The Arts Matter National Endowment for the Arts

Why Would We Move Musings on Movement Practice and Training HowlRound Theatre Commons

Why You Tryna Silence Her Body? The Role of Education in Shaping the Black Female Body by Dominique C. Hill

Will COVID-19 Shift the Dance Industry Away From Major Cities? by Haley Hilton

With A Leap Across Gender Norms A Risi... Looks To Rewrite Rules Of Dance

Writing Dancing in the age of Postmodernism by Sally Banes

Yes Burt Bacharach Wrote That And You Can Dance to It.

Yvonne Rainer a Giant of Choreography Makes Her Last Dance