Op-Ed: How to Save a Doomed Geisha
0The UK’s The Spectator recently published a piece by the Japan specialist Lesley Downer, historical consultant for the Northern Ballet’s 2020 production Geisha. In her essay,...
Yanira Castro’s Exorcism = Liberation Is a Public Art Campaign for Divided Times
0Stroll through New York City, Chicago, or Western Massachusetts in the next month and a half and you might encounter a somewhat mysterious provocation on a...
“Playground” Star Dexter Carr on When Dance Gets the Reality Show Treatment
0The new Hulu reality series “Playground,” with Megan Thee Stallion as an executive producer, is equal parts dancing and drama. The show’s namesake is Playground LA,...
Kayla Hamilton on Disability as Method and Access as Artistry
0Bronx-based dancer, director, and educator Kayla Hamilton is at a transitional moment in her career. Her largest ensemble project yet, How to Bend Down / How...
A Strike Threat, Scaffolding, and Last-Minute Changes: What It Was Like Dancing in the Olympic Opening Ceremony
0Ballet de Lorraine’s Tristan Ihne has been dancing professionally for nearly two decades. But on July 26, he gave a performance unlike any he’d done before:...
Choreographer David Dorfman on Magical Risk and Radical Empathy
0For 40 years, David Dorfman has made capacious work full of heart. His 2020 piece (A) Way Out of My Body features original text, songs by...
Dancing Across the Solar System as the Grand Canyon’s Astronomer in Residence
0When I first imagined choreographing a dance about the connection between the Grand Canyon and how humans explore the solar system, I figured the idea was...
La Cage aux Folles’ Cagelles, 40 Years Later: Something About Sharing, Something About Always
0The groundbreaking musical La Cage aux Folles opened on Broadway 40 years ago last August. As part of the anniversary celebrations, members of the original Cagelles—the...
Queer Women Are Disconcertingly Absent From the Pages of Dance History. Where Are They?
0It’s 2009, and my high school self is in the studio choreographing a new duet with my best friend to Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”...
The Rise of Pole Dancing in Egypt
0Malak Shoeira went to her first pole dance class half-jokingly, after a friend’s suggestion. At the time she was a ninth-grader in Egypt, and almost everything...