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The image features dancers from The UMAMI Colletive’s Sweetest Encounter, wearing various colorful 70s vibe clothing. The ensemble poses with all hands up to the sky and flares outward while they look up. It is set against a warm sunrise background, the dancers radiant happiness through their inviting smiles and open chest to the sky as if soaking in the sun.
Photo: Laney Powers
  • Reviews

This is Your Moment

Sophiann Mahalia Moore

A Night with UMAMI and Urban Movement Arts Dance Theater

Against a grassy, hilly field, six humans are collected in space. Four are standing in a line, two white individuals and two Black individuals, and two white individuals are kneeling facing each other in front of the standing people. They wear an assortment of loose and tight clothing and are all smiling with joy.
Photo: Laura Desimine
  • Interviews

Finding Community, Building Community: An Interview with Philly Dance Share

Madeline Shuron

With and through each other, PDS is reshaping the Philly dance scene, one class at a time.

The image captures an exquisite moment from the poetic dance drama The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting. A group of female dancers, dressed in flowing teal skirts and light turquoise tops, perform in perfect synchronization. Their poses, with gracefully bent knees and upper bodies slightly arched, evoke the undulating lines of rolling mountains. The dancers' tall, elegant hairpieces and the mist-like effect on the stage enhance the visual resemblance to a traditional Chinese landscape painting, blending motion with artistic stillness.
Photo by: China Oriental Song and Dance Troupe
  • Reviews

A Glimpse of Traditional Cultural Revival – The Premiere of Chinese Dance Drama in the US

Ziying Cui

The poetic dance features neo-classical choreography and breathtaking visual spectacle.

  • Public Square

P.S. #9: Clips Share

  • thINKpieces

Resistance Through Performance and Pedagogy: What is Dance Activism?

Mariadela Belle Alvarez
An African American man wearing a yellow shirt leans his head towards the camera, against the chest of a white man with a mustache, while at the same time being gently pulled in the other director by a third dancer with gold hair.
Photo by: Amelia Gordon
  • Reviews

Choreography at the End

Brendan McCall

Miguel Gutierrez,New York Live Arts,MANCC,Are You For Sale podcast,BIPOC,LGBTQ+

Three people wearing all black stand next to a ladder in a blackbox theatre holding a puppet. The puppet is climbing the ladder and waving one arm overhead. There are various hand-crafted sculptures and props surrounding them, and an image is projected on a screen behind them.
Photo by: Sebastienne Mundheim
  • Reviews

Kea and the Ark

Caitlin Green

Each step forward is a calculation that risks the possibility of imbalance.

A dancer stands in a wide lunge with arms reaching wide and palms facing upward as if she is scooping the air above her. She wears a geometric red and grey leotard with black pants and a line of white face paint framing her chin. She is doused in a deep red light.
Photo by Steven Pisano
  • Reviews

Garlic and Power at Out-FRONT! Fest.

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Angie Pittman and Kyle Marshall Choreography deliver a powerful split bill as part of the radical queer dance and film festiv

A copy of The Swans of Harlem stands next to an open laptop. The cover of the book is gold, with black and white photographs of five Black ballerinas in retiré, leaping, and posing in arabesque and with a pointed foot. The book’s subtitle is also visible on the cover: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History.
Photo: Ellen Miller
  • Reviews

Remember Us: Five Groundbreaking Black Women Who Changed Ballet

Ellen Miller

Documenting five pioneering Black ballerinas of Dance Theatre of Harlem: their journeys to and departures from the company.

  • News

2025 Open Call for New tD Writers (Now Closed)

Miryam Coppersmith

thINKingDANCE is seeking 10-15 new writers to join our Philly-based organization