Upping the ante on dance coverage and conversation

Join us on Monday    for a Write Back Atcha! 

 

thINKingDANCE will lead a Write Back Atcha after Beautiful Human Lies   on Monday September 8th   at the Drake  .

Get tickets for the show and join us afterwards for a post-show writing workshop facilitated by Noel Price-Bracey!

Raw Egg and All, It Works
Photo: Johanna Austin

Raw Egg and All, It Works

Full Out Formula’s circus act lets the audience decide.

Ellen Miller
August 3, 2025

A Mother-Son Duo Exchange Expertise
Photo: Tyler Kline

A Mother-Son Duo Exchange Expertise

His musicianship paves the way for her play.

Caitlin Green
August 5, 2025

Homecoming: Stephen Petronio Company´s Final Season at the Pillow
Photo: Jamie Kraus

Homecoming: Stephen Petronio Company´s Final Season at the Pillow

Stephen Petronio Company's Final Bow

Brendan McCall
August 11, 2025

Inside/Out Protest: Embodied Liberation with Yara Travieso
Photo: Yara Travieso

Inside/Out Protest: Embodied Liberation with Yara Travieso

Softening into tender resistance and honest disobedience with Cuban-Venezuelan artist Travieso.

Ankita
August 16, 2025

Infiltrating Institutions with Christopher Kaui Morgan
Photo by K.C. Alfred

Infiltrating Institutions with Christopher Kaui Morgan

Christopher Kaui Morgan—infiltrator and advocate—holds the door open for Native Hawaiian and queer communities.

Ankita
August 21, 2025

The Rear-View Mirror: Hindsight from a Dance Scholar
Photo: Hugo Erfurth

The Rear-View Mirror: Hindsight from a Dance Scholar

How does the lens switch as time passes?

Megan Mizanty
August 25, 2025

B.F.F. (Before the Fringe Festival: A Moving History)
Photo: Christopher Gibson

B.F.F. (Before the Fringe Festival: A Moving History)

A reflection on the Memoir of Michael Pedretti of Movement Theatre International, pre-Fringe.

Walter Bilderback
August 31, 2025

59th exhale: A night of questions, answers optional.
Photo: Rob Li

59th exhale: A night of questions, answers optional.

Textured worlds provoke dynamic questionings.

Xander Cobb
September 2, 2025

Flamenco Whenever, Wherever
Photo: Richard Clark, Philippe Dedryver

Flamenco Whenever, Wherever

The skillful duet brings to mind a dimly-lit café in Seville.

Caedra Scott-Flaherty
September 4, 2025

Calling All Querthlings
Photo: William Frederking

Calling All Querthlings

An extraterrestrial Gospel to absolve you of queer shame and anxiety – no promises.

Xander Cobb
September 6, 2025

Consenting to Play
Photo: Melissa Simpson

Consenting to Play

Sometimes the performance is in fact play.

Nadia Ureña
September 6, 2025

Circling with the Dybbuk
Photo: Anna Siegel

Circling with the Dybbuk

Beloved Yiddish play is translated through dance.

Madeline Shuron
September 6, 2025

News

Transitions in thINKingDANCE Leadership

Dear thINKingDANCE Community, We are in a moment of exciting transition! You have probably seen the first articles published by our new cohort of writers…
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Welcoming New Writers to thINKingDANCE!

Join us in welcoming our newest writers to thINKingDANCE! This January, we received applications from 50 writers interested in joining our team, our highest…
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Top 20 Articles of Year 2024

This year, twenty-six writers contributed to our thINKingDANCE publication. We write about what artists do with respect for the labor and intentions that…
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A Bit About Us

thINKingDANCE is a collective of independent writers based in the Philadelphia area. Founded in 2011, we produce a digital journal about dance in its broadest sense. We foster the practice of dance writing; build an archive of movement-based art; and work to dismantle gatekeeping in dance criticism. We pursue these goals by developing our writing through peer-critique sessions, workshops with guest educators, and a uniquely rigorous two-tiered editing process. thINKingDANCE is a place where ideas thrive; where editors, writers, and readers engage one another in transformative dialogue; and where we imagine a more vibrant and just dance media landscape. Read more.

Funding

thINKingDANCE gratefully acknowledges support from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and from our readers and other individual donors like you! thINKingDANCE is supported by Critical Minded, an initiative to invest in cultural critics of color cofounded by The Nathan Cummings Foundation and The Ford Foundation.

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The  thINKingDANCE Archive provides a tool for researchers and reporters to read articles published by thINKingDANCE from  2011-2019. See the Archive.


 

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