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A line of eleven people are holding hands in front of bright large windows, their legs lunging and their heads turned in different directions. They were sweat pants and t-shirts, shorts or tank tops, all of various colors. Some of them are looking to their right and down, others looking up and left.
Photo: Julie Lemberger
  • Reviews, thINKpieces

Approaching the End: Open Rehearsals with Stephen Petronio Company

Brendan McCall

Petronio Company's intimate and moving rehearsals during their final season.

JJ Omelagah, holding a mic for Kayla Hamilton, inside of a Movement Research studio. Kayla is demonstrating a movement for the How We Move cohort with both arms pointing in opposing directions. Both folks are masked.
Photo: Whitney Browne
  • Reviews

When Something Does Not Exist, We Must Create It

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Embraced Body redefines the dance intensive in their inaugural How We Move program.

Portia, a white trans non-binary person, crouches over a mix of DJ mixer, wires, and opened journals strewn across the floor. They wear a black tank top and athletic shorts, and focus in on a laptop. The glow from the laptop and other technical elements subtly illuminate Portia.
Photo: Ofentse Kwenaite
  • Reviews

When the Muzzle Comes Off, Who Do You Bite?

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Portia Wells finds their bark.

Three dancers from the side in a black space, two in front and one behind them and centered. The dancers in front hold a basket between their right hands. They are all bent at the knees, arching over their left shoulders with the right shoulder sunken toward the floor. Their left arms fly out in long, clean lines.
Photo: Steven Pisano
  • Reviews

Why? And Where Are You?

Emilee Lord

Pain is not a flower

A dancer stands in a wide lunge with arms reaching wide and palms facing upward as if she is scooping the air above her. She wears a geometric red and grey leotard with black pants and a line of white face paint framing her chin. She is doused in a deep red light.
Photo by Steven Pisano
  • Reviews

Garlic and Power at Out-FRONT! Fest.

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Angie Pittman and Kyle Marshall Choreography deliver a powerful split bill as part of the radical queer dance and film festiv

Two dancers are intertwined, reaching upwards with their arm while in a lunge. Behind them, two other duets of dancers are intertwined making similar reaching shapes. The lighting is dim and warm, and the dancers wear multicolored pedestrian clothing. They are soft, with open palms and gently bent arms.
Photo: Owen Burnham
  • Reviews

Staring Back at You

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

“Where the Violets Bloom” illuminates stories of queer love, joy, violence, and community.

Photo: Morgan Gregory
  • Reviews

Whimsy and Childlike Nostalgia in “Indigo in October”

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Sumayyah Smith invites us into her vibrant world.

Photo: Todd Carroll
  • Interviews, thINKpieces

The Kinetic, the Femme, The Political: Lineage in motion.

Emilee Lord

Motherhood is not marketable.

Photo: Maria Baranova
  • Reviews

4 | 2 | 3: An Unsolved Riddle

Charly Santagado

Three generations of dancers touch the void

Screenshot taken from ABT’s Instagram
  • News, thINKpieces

The ABT Strike and the Fight for Fair Wages for Dancers

What happens when our dancers can no longer afford to live?