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Fanned out in a circle on a white surface are 12 booklets in a range of colors. Here and there are sections of text covered or obscured by other booklets. In the center of this circle is the title piece in a wash of brown darker at the bottom and lightening toward the top. The vague image of pine tree tops on its surface. It reads, Dance across the top and History(s) across the bottom with the subtitle Imagination as a Form of Study in the center. Underneath in smaller letters it reads edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson.
Photo: Jack Lazar
  • Book Reviews

To Us/Because of Us

Emilee Lord

Dance is a Weed

A woman in a black leather coat, jeans and a black bowler hat squats down. Her long hair is blown across her face obscuring it and her hand moves up to brush it away. The name Clare Croft appears in black letters in the top left corner. In large white letters, the bottom of the photo reads: Jill Johnston.
Photo by Phyllis Birkby
  • Reviews

Interrupting the Paper Daughter

Emilee Lord

Reading writing on a writer dancing

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
  • Reviews

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.

Photo: Emilee Lord
  • Reviews

Writing | Moving | Seeing | Writing

Emilee Lord

The performative intersections of writing and dance.

Photo: Robbie Sweeny
  • Reviews

Unveiling the Apparatus

Even when Mattingly’s own choreographic apparatus may seem contentious, her viewpoint is definitely worth reading.

photo by Rebecca Davis
  • Reviews

Find Have Remember Lose Keep

Emilee Lord

This is not a book, it’s an act.

Photo: Emma Cohen
  • Reviews

Ntozake Shange Expresses the Poetry of Black Dance

Emma Cohen

In the new book Dance We Do, the line between language and movement is erased

Image: Alex Tharnish
  • Collections, thINKpieces

Decolonizing Dance Writing: The Necessity of Evolution!

Gregory King

Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.

Image: Alex Tharnish
  • Interviews

Decolonizing Dance Writing: Body Stories and the Bedrock of Dreams

Gregory King

Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.

Image: Alex Tharnish
  • Reviews

Decolonizing Dance Writing: Who is Writing for?

Gregory King

Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.