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The Message and Method Behind a Most Timely Work

Darcy Grabenstein

Words, not poetry. Experiment, not choreography. Expression, not dance.

Photo: Tania Fernandez

Writing to Move, Moving to Write

Kristen Shahverdian

Does walking through space change our definition of the body?

Photo: LaNeshe Miller White

Bringing Art Home: The Painted Bride Builds Bridges

Maddie Hopfield

Are decentralized, virtual arts organizations the wave of the future?

Photo: Lois Greenfield

Joan Myers Brown on 50 Years with PHILADANCO and Philly’s Future

Kat J. Sullivan

"I keep telling people I have 'founder’s disease.' I am always starting things."

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Embodying Anti-Racism

Emma Cohen

Resmaa Menakem's "My Grandmother’s Hands" addresses racialized trauma through somatic practice

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Meaningfulness: Process Project in Times of COVID

Rhonda Moore

Performances infused with the reflection and thoughtfulness of lived experience

Photo: University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives

Moving Lessons: Relearning Our History as Dance Educators

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

H’Doubler didn’t teach from a codified movement technique, and valued improvisation and discovery above all.

Photo: Courtesy of Halifu Osumare

A Fluid Constant: Dr. Halifu Osumare’s Dancing in Blackness

Leslie Bush

Dr. Halifu Osumare’s memoir weaves personal stories together with histories of Black dance.

Photo: Rachel Neville

An Interview with Iquail Shaheed Part 1: Black Love and Tenderness on Stage

Mira Treatman

At a moment when those narratives of Black death were all on stage, we came in and it was just about love and tenderness.

Photo: Matthew McLaughlin

Embracing Uncertainty

Carolyn Merritt

While tango dancers wait to embrace again, this collective pause offers time and space.