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Finding Community, Building Community: An Interview with Philly Dance ShareWith and through each other, PDS is reshaping the Philly dance scene, one class at a time. Madeline Shuron |
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This is Your MomentA Night with UMAMI and Urban Movement Arts Dance Theater Sophiann Mahalia Moore |
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All That History in Those Very SeatsSteve Paxton remembered Emilee Lord |
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Montreal Company, RUBBERBAND, Brings Reckless Underdog to PhillyBringing street dance to the theater underscores the intersection of performance and social dance. Caitlin Green |
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Has Sadness Ever Taken You Down to the Dump?“THIS IS THE WORST DAY EVER!” Caitlin Green |
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Beyond Entertainment: Exploring Perspectives on the Purpose of Dance in South Indian HistoryDance as an expression of political power, religious fervor, and of women’s sexualities. Lakshmi Thiagarajan |
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Interrupting the Paper DaughterReading writing on a writer dancing Emilee Lord |
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the wave of ending and beginningwith the world so uncertain and art requiring more cherishing than ever, Lin cherishes the dancers and the giving act of performance, as do the dancers with one another. desire amaiya |
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Flinging in the RainA Glimpse into Scottish Highland Dance Emilee Lord |
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2.0 The horse is blonde, and other mutteringsJulie Mayo and Christy Funsch present ”A Wife in Dance,” a split bill performance prioritizing space, distance, and relationship. Madeline Shuron |
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Why? And Where Are You?Pain is not a flower Emilee Lord |
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The Web: Celebrating Ten Years of Podcast InterconnectednessMovers and Shapers dances into the next decade Megan Mizanty |
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Join us in welcoming our newest writers to thINKingDANCE!
This January, we received applications from 50 writers interested in joining our team, our highest… 2025 Open Call for New tD Writers (Now Closed)
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This year, twenty-six writers contributed to our thINKingDANCE publication. We write about what artists do with respect for the labor and intentions that… A Bit About UsthINKingDANCE 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. FundingthINKingDANCE 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. |