Skip to content

thINKingDANCE

  • All Articles
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Book Reviews
    • thINKpieces
    • Write Back Atchas
    • News
  • About
    • Staff
    • Our Story
  • Contact
  • All Articles
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Book Reviews
    • thINKpieces
    • Write Back Atchas
    • News
  • About
    • Staff
    • Our Story
  • Contact
Donate
Douglas Dunn stands wearing a bright yellow mask which covers his eyes. His right arm is extended to his side while his other rests on a wooden chair painted with yellow flowers. He wears a grey vest, red tie, and dark pants--a contrast to dancers Dongri Suh and Janet Charleston who stand behind him weaering flowered garlands around their heads and wear tulle skirts. A video of two waterfalls is projected onto the wall behind them.
Photo: Jacob Burckhardt
  • Reviews

Douglas Dunn’s Post-modern Pastoral

Brendan McCall
  • An intrepid choreographer examines classical forms through a post-modern lens
Two people draped in brown fabric rest their heads on one another’s shoulders in front of a white background. The image is edited with faint red and blue outlines.
Photo: Kosoko Performance Studio
  • Reviews

This Is Not Surveillance. You Gon Have To Participate.

Caitlin Green

//shrouded\\ evokes a necessary discomfort within the container of performance.

A dancer caught mid-head spin with white sneakers punching into the air while a crowd of others watch intently, arms reaching towards each other.
Photo: Courtesy of Rennie Harris
  • Reviews

When do we Shout If Not Now?

Noel Price-Bracey

In Losing My Religion, Rennie Harris models resistance, teaching us to never tire until “victory is won.”

Two dancers wear black costumes, and the lighting is low and shadowy. One dancer lays face-up on the stage with arms softly outstretched to the sides and their chest lifted off the floor, legs bending at the knees. The other dancer sits, gazing downwards at them. Dancers: Sayer Mansfield, Marla Phelan
Photo: Tim Richardson
  • Reviews

Science and Dance in Creative Conversation

Jen George

Science in partnership with dance yields collaboration and contrasting forces.

thINKingDANCE is a consortium of dance artists and writers who work together to provide critical coverage for dance, to build audiences for dance, and to foster the art of dance writing.

PARTNER CONTENT

The Latest from thINKingDANCE

In a close up photograph, ten dancers in spaghetti-strap leotards lean in, their eyes covered by a sheer black cloth. The middle dancer, closest to the camera, is mid-scream. Behind the dancer is the newly engraved building signage reading “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center.” Some words are covered by the dancers’ heads.
Photo: Courtesy of The First Amendment Troop
  • Interviews

The Epstein Files and Redacted Bodies 

Megan Mizanty
  • An interview with choreographer Matthew Steffens on ResistDance vs. Redaction
Two dancers in long-sleeved red tops face away from us with arms round one another’s waists as their free arms reach outwards. There are singular, red feathers extending from their heads many feet into the upwards space. To the left of the duet, we see a large Taiko drum.
Photo: Mike Hurwitz
  • Interviews, thINKpieces

Afterglow: The Dancers of KYL/D Take a Final Bow

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell
  • ‘Anticipating something and hoping it will be everything you wished for’
A group of five dancers, three women and two men, form a circle around a female soloist. The soloist, wearing a vibrant pink vest over a black top paired with light blue, wide-legged pants, moves exuberantly with her arms out akimbo while standing on her left toes with her right leg out to the side. A live five piece jazz band, including a piano, drums, a bass trumpet, and trombone, is visible behind the dancers upstage. A projection on the brick wall in the back displays a collage of sheet music and colonial artwork of a scene from a pub.
Photo: Jano Cohen
  • Reviews

Scats off the Score

Nadia Ureña
  • Lauren and Brent White breathe new life into Francis Johnson’s suites from the Antebellum.
Three dancers, all clad in black cotton outfits, sit on the floor while leaning one arm up and over their bodies. Their spines curve to the side.
Photo: Gonzalo Mejia, University of Miami
  • Book Reviews

Reckoning with Power in the Classroom

Megan Mizanty
  • Nicole Perry’s publication urges critical reflection for movement educators
View More >>

PARTNER CONTENT

From the Archives

A collection of featured work from our archives across the years

Photo: Intellect Books
  • Reviews

Dialoguing Ethics in Dance

Leila Mire
  • It is often taken for granted that dance, a field that proclaims to celebrate humanity, places ethics at the forefront of its
Photo: Amber Johnston
  • Reviews

I present a present presently

nikolai mckenzie ben rema
  • Stacking on bones like a winter blizzard...time can accumulate/elongate and backflip on itself.
  • Reviews

A Dance of Attention

Megan Bridge
  • Presence isn’t about acting, or charisma, it’s about directed and specific consciousness.
Photo Credit: Robert Eticheverry
  • Reviews

Everyone’s Dancing in “Le Grand Continental”

Jonathan Stein
  • The post-moderns not only asked “what is dance?” but also “who can or should the dancer be?”. The latter question will soon receive the resounding answer--“Everyone!"

Make sure to subscribe to our mailing list get the latest from thINKingDANCE right in your inbox!

SUBSCRIBE

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.

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy & Terms

thINKingDANCE

  • Donate
  • Writer Submissions
  • Advertise
Facebook Instagram

© 2026 thINKingDANCE  |  Website designed and developed by Creative Repute