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Photo: Brad Larrison

Precarious River: Beck Epoch on the Schuylkill

Lynn Matluck Brooks

In rowboats, kayaks, and dragon boats the audience watched four women balance, swing, and suspend themselves above the waters

Photo: Denise Allen

In Honor of Black Girl Magic: A Curated Salon at The Colored Girls Museum Festival

Janna Meiring

“Sanctified. This space is now sanctified.” The energy of the room was palpable, and urgent.

Skyler’s Then and Now

Rhonda Moore

BalletX urges classically-trained dancers to new heights and depths of nimbly explorative, bold, and compelling shape-shiftin

Photo: Courtesy of Classical Theater of Harlem

Classical Theatre of Harlem and Elisa Monte Dance: Creating Spaces and Collaborations in Macbeth

Gregory King

Is Shakespeare different when interpreted by the black body?

Photo: Grant Friedman

Dance as Palimpsest: Petronio Unplugged

Lauren Samblanet

Do all dances become palimpsests over time? Overlaid meanings and overlaid bodies...which we, the audience, can never see ful

Photo: Hellmut Gottschild

Arrows at Racism in Dance and Beyond: Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Lynn Matluck Brooks

On dance, her impact, and racism, "the most glaring, tragic, intransigent issue in every sector of the American landscape."

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Slain by Beauty

The context of Balanchine and Beyond makes Trisha Brown’s work gleam. A nod to the events of the day would have made the ball

Photo: Michael Bartmann

Dance as Medium: a turning of the bones

Scott Rodrigue

Bellows Falls allows story to arise from the concrete poetics of space.

Photo: Frank Bicking

Real Live People from Near and Far

Zornitsa Stoyanova

Issues of identity, race and communication with each other resonated, leaving me with a new hope for dance and its connection

Life Lines: Ally at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Carolyn Merritt

There is the biography... And there is the universal—the multitudes of a single life, the luck of longevity.