Articles

Precarious River: Beck Epoch on the Schuylkill

In rowboats, kayaks, and dragon boats the audience watched four women balance, swing, and suspend themselves above the waters.
July 22, 2016
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In Honor of Black Girl Magic: A Curated Salon at The Colored Girls Museum Festival

“Sanctified. This space is now sanctified.” The energy of the room was palpable, and urgent.
July 17, 2016
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Skyler’s Then and Now

BalletX urges classically-trained dancers to new heights and depths of nimbly explorative, bold, and compelling shape-shifting.
July 14, 2016
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Classical Theatre of Harlem and Elisa Monte Dance: Creating Spaces and Collaborations in Macbeth

Is Shakespeare different when interpreted by the black body?
July 10, 2016
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Dance as Palimpsest: Petronio Unplugged

Do all dances become palimpsests over time? Overlaid meanings and overlaid bodies...which we, the audience, can never see fully.
July 9, 2016
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Arrows at Racism in Dance and Beyond: Brenda Dixon Gottschild

On dance, her impact, and racism, "the most glaring, tragic, intransigent issue in every sector of the American landscape."
June 25, 2016
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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 ballet as an institution gleam as well.
June 19, 2016
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Dance as Medium: a turning of the bones

Bellows Falls allows story to arise from the concrete poetics of space.
June 17, 2016
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