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Photo: Kate Raines

Death Is Kinda Busy These Days

Nicole Bindler

Death was able to somehow remind me of everyone I’ve ever lost, through her simple gestures and dream-like presence.

Photo: Jonathan Stein

Portal Into Our Times, and It’s Live!

Jonathan Stein

Experimenting with live performance during the pandemic, and using its limitations to inform the work.

Photo: Benjamin Behrend and Logan Gabriel Schulman

Welcome to the Shiva House, Where Grief Is in Full Bloom

Darcy Grabenstein

Storytelling and Jewish tradition in an interactive memorial ceremony for people of all faiths (or no faith)

Photo: Danny Bristoll

Trust the Process(es)

Andrew Sargus Klein

In a sprawling collage of video, text, and audio, Legal Tender includes pieces of its process and past lives.

Photo: Terrell Halsey

Kulu Mele: Dancing with and for the Ancestors

Christina Catanese

The African dance and drum ensemble celebrates 50 years in Philadelphia with a new film at the BlackStar Film Festival

Photo: Kaitlin Chow

Looks Like Sounds Like, a Study in Contrasts—and Perception

Darcy Grabenstein

In Looks Like Sounds Like, you may wonder whether there’s more to it than meets the eye—and ear.

Photo: Dana Lixenberg

Drag Dance: Relived, Reincarnated, Reimagined

Leila Mire

Considering the 'politics of gender in motion' in drag performance

Photo: MoMA

Judson Dance Theater’s ‘Unassuming Radicality’

Andrew Sargus Klein

A legacy resisting if not outright rejecting formal documentation.

Image: Alex Tharnish

Decolonizing Dance Writing: The Necessity of Evolution!

Gregory King

Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.

Photo: Andrea Nunez

The State of the Studio

Kat J. Sullivan

As the economic toll of the pandemic crashes like a wave over the city’s artistic network, smaller studios are being swept ou