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In greyscale photograph, a hand emerges from the dark, fingers shades of white and grey like brushstrokes.
Photo: Rece Komorn
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Excavating the Imprint

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

Imbued with the qualities of the surroundIngs, they are receivers.

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: Susan Kettering
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Momentary bliss in Northern Michigan

Ellen Miller

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

Photo: Spyros Stefanou
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A Study in Setting

Ellen Miller

At Leah Stein’s FILM WORKS screening, setting took center stage.

Photo: Rob Li
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Traversing Culture and Time – Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers’ Breath Into Air

Ziying Cui

Kun-Yang’s new piece “Breath Into Air” traverses cultural boundaries by exploring a collective human consciousness.

Photo credit: Alexander Diaz
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A body/ a response

Ellen Miller

A dancer inspires a filmmaker, and a filmmaker inspires a poet.

Photo: Paul Kolnik
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Invitation to Joy

Ellen Miller

In new and old work, Ailey’s dancers invite us to embody the joy of their expression

Photo: Pablo Meninato
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Becoming Animals

Madeline Shuron

Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.

Photo: Larry Dixon
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Shifting Colors and Disco Balls

Madeline Shuron

It’s a piece about the localized bioenergetic field that surrounds living beings, and the dancers play with this energy.

Photo: Rob Li
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In Fruit of Her Lips, a Surrealist Celebration

Ellen Miller

Poetry and rain-infused performance