thINKingDANCE (tD) is committed to supporting our roster of writers
thINKingDANCE (tD) is committed to supporting our roster of writers

Sex and Ghosts in an Empty Theater
BABYLIFT, Anh Vo’s multimedia solo that grapples with the afterlives of

Ntozake Shange Expresses the Poetry of Black Dance
What a gift, in this year cluttered with losses, to




Generating Solidarity, Even Through Screens
For freelance dancers, it is not unusual to work for

Sussing Out (and Settling Into) Slowness
Slowness was a conversation between dance-artist Okwui Okpokwasili, scholar Saidiya Hartman, multimedia-artist


Starting from around age three, I was resolutely a bunhead.

Going Deep: Cunningham in Three Dimensions
I laughed at myself as I once again fell out

At the conclusion of Gabrielle Revlock’s SEX TAPE + Nuptial Blitz,

Parsing the Significance of a New Archive
Clicking through a folder of images, many of them brightly

“Matters of materiality, and its spirit. These things matter to

Emma Cohen is a performing artist currently based in New York. Recently, she has worked with Gillian Walsh, Ligia Lewis, and Elena Bajo, among others. From 2017-2018, Emma participated in the Performance Research Project in Vancouver, BC. Learn more. She is a former staff writer with thINKingDANCE.