ballet

Four dancers move among scattered votive candles in a darkened studio, the studio lights off, their forms illuminated only by the flickering flames.
Photo: Lauren Berlin
  • Reviews

This One is Dedicated to the Bunheads

Lauren Berlin

Where Echoes Remain by Marina Kec Explores the Psyche of a Ballerina

With eyes closed, Nadia Beugré holds a stick in her mouth and tilts her head to the left. More wooden sticks frame her face. She is sweaty, her right arm strong and flexed.
Photo: Werner Strouven
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Le Corps (The Body)

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

A body of work, a dancer’s body, a home for a human being, a “corps de ballet.”

Photo: Sasha Onyshchenko
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we show you what we want to

desire amaiya

are moments enough?

Photo: Brian Mengini
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Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Temple’s Dance Faculty Concert

Ziying Cui

Five innovative choreographies by the current faculty of the Dance Department.

  • Book Reviews

Book Review: A Magic Carpet Ride Through Ballet’s History of Orientalism

Catja Christensen

Banishing Orientalism is an intellectually stimulating, essential read.

Still image from Downstage
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Dance as an Exploration of Love, Pain, and Performance

Caitlin Green

Watching the film felt like the motion-picture equivalent of flipping through an old photo album.

Photo: Kara Nepomuceno
  • Book Reviews, thINKpieces

Loose ribbons

Kara Nepomuceno

A “more socially just future” reaches beyond drastic changes in ballet’s foundations.

Photo: Emma Cohen
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Dance Studio Life

Emma Cohen

Melissa Klapper’s new book offers a social history of ballet class in the United States.

Photo: RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
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Marie Geneviève Van Goethem, aka “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”

Carolyn Merritt

Like a sculptor aiming for a semblance of life, the author adjusts her sights beyond the facts, on Marie Van Goethem’s soul.

Photo: Lynn Brooks
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Ballet: What is the Matter?

Jennifer Fisher's new book, a memoir-as-ethnographic study