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"entangled" - With the ocean in the background, we only see the back of a man wearing a dirty blue shirt, James Barrett. He is reaching his hands behind him to touch another man, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, who wears red shorts and his lying on his back.
Photo courtesy of Faye Driscoll
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The Mutability of Outdoor Performance: Driscoll’s Oceanic Feeling

Brendan McCall

Site-specific performance along the liminal edge

pink backlight, three dancers, left most has right arm up and left arm down, middle has both arms bent upward, right has bent left arm and straight right arm, all in purple polos, two white set pieces frame the image with black curved lines.
Photo: Thomas Choinacky
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i hold your towel just how you like it

desire amaiya

we are spectators in a typically unwatched game.

Two Dancers , clad in billowing materials, move amongst piles of dusty cinderblocks.
Photo: RAIR Residency
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transfiguration

desire amaiya

A trek through the unconscious.

Two faces, each isolated in their own pool of phone light, look down at their phone screens.
Photo courtesy of Cannonball Festival
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ding!

desire amaiya

we create a score through digital communication.

Hanschitz, a white woman wearing dark green pants and a flowy light green shirt, balances inside a human sized metal hoop, a Cyr wheel. Her arms and legs connect to the wheel in an X shape. The image is slightly blurry as if captured mid-motion.
Photo: Karen Cecilia
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Dance and Cirque Nouveau Crossing Countries

Karen Cecilia

Cirque, dance, and sound art encapsulate the journey of letting go.

A laptop sits open on a wooden table. On screen the description for the MoBBallet Dance Writers Convening is displayed. Next to the laptop on the table are an iced latte, a thINKingDANCE pen, and a thINKingDANCE business card.
Photo: Ellen Miller
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Envisioning a future of possibilities for dance writing

Ellen Miller

A convening of dance writers offers critical opportunities to reflect on bias, harm, and opportunity in the field.

Kayla Hamilton, a Black woman in a flowing black tunic, extends her arms directly in front of her, open hands reaching forward. She is facing stage right, with an open facial expression. Photo by Ahad Subzwari/The Shed.
Photo by Ahad Subzwari/The Shed.
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When you find it, pick it up

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Kayla Hamilton’s How to Bend Down/How to Pick It Up ushers in an exciting new era.

Photo: Emilee Lord
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Writing | Moving | Seeing | Writing

Emilee Lord

The performative intersections of writing and dance.

Photo: Susan Kettering
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Momentary bliss in Northern Michigan

Ellen Miller

At Traverse City Dance Project, contemporary joy stole the show.

Photo: angel edwards
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Co-creating softness in community

Ellen Miller

By being vulnerable, the possibility to experience softness collectively.