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Dance is a distinctive art form encompassing an incredible range of styles and practices, but content in this section puts it in conversation with theatre in various ways, from conversations about theatre and dance in systems-impacted communities and Africana dance dramaturgies to essays about disability, pop culture, and more.

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Finding the Individual in Your Digital Choreography Library
Podcast
Finding the Individual in Your Digital Choreography Library
by Tjaša Ferme, LaJune McMillian
15 February 2024
Aristotle Thinks Again
Video
Aristotle Thinks Again
Part of Great Jones Rep's Humanismo: Ancient Futures Series. 
Sunday 28 January 2024
United States
Ashley Chen's Performance of Distances
Video
Ashley Chen's Performance of Distances
Ashley Chen—choreographer, performer, and founder of Kashyl—brings his work to La MaMa as part of Villa Albertine’s 2023 Dance Season.
Friday 8 December 2023
United States
Photo from Don Quixote.
The Bolshoi Ballet at The Lincoln Center Festival
Essay

The Bolshoi Ballet at The Lincoln Center Festival

9 September 2014

Marcina Zaccaria looks at The Bolshoi Theatre production of Don Quixote performed at the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival.

Friday Phone Call # 69
Podcast

Friday Phone Call # 69

Liz Lerman

29 August 2014

Today my guest is the inestimable Liz Lerman. Listeners may mostly be familiar with Liz through her Critical Response Process, which is in use around the world as a system for managing the feedback process around new work. We get into her current thinking around this work, first developed when she was making work through her company, Dance Exchange. Liz is now a freelance dance and theater maker and educator and was the originator of an ambitious multi-institutional project commemorating the Civil War—a project still underway.

Parenting and Playwriting
Essay

Parenting and Playwriting

Gotta Dance

31 July 2014

Nothing stirs my blood quite like the soft knock of toe shoes on a wood floor during a piqué. And so I admit, I may have exhibited a little too much enthusiasm when Laura, four, expressed a passing interest in taking a ballet class this summer.

Photo from Forgiveness: A Theatrical Poem.
The Mystery of Forgiveness at the Modern Times Stage Company
Essay

The Mystery of Forgiveness at the Modern Times Stage Company

1 April 2014

Matt McGeachy writes about Modern Times Stage Company's Forgiveness: A Theatrical Poem, an intense movement piece exploring the dialetic between forgiveness and forgetting. 

Friday Phone Call # 50
Podcast

Friday Phone Call # 50

Annie-B & Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater

21 February 2014

My guests are Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind Big Dance Theater, New York. I was interested in hearing them talk about the ideas underpinning their decades of collaboration and how they have maintained a space for themselves in these times and in the blurry, hybrid world their work inhabits. Listen to audio podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. Subscribe in Apple iTunes or via RSS Feed.

Photo from Winter Pageant.
Winter Pageant at Redmoon
Essay

Winter Pageant at Redmoon

23 January 2014

Dani Snyder-Young writes about Winter Pageant, a collaborative spectacle piece created by the (now closed) Redmoom in Chicago.

Photo from Right of Spring.
Shen Wei's Lifts
Essay

Shen Wei's Lifts

A Unique Approach to Dance

17 December 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about the work of Shen Wei, and the modern semiotics of the lift in dance.

Photo from Jacob's Pillow.
A Dance of Desegregation at Jacob's Pillow
Essay

A Dance of Desegregation at Jacob's Pillow

15 October 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Pavement, an adaptation of the 1991 film, Boyz N the Hood at Jacob's Pillow Dance.

Photo from Liquid Culture.
Six Ways of Thinking about Liquid Culture
Essay

Six Ways of Thinking about Liquid Culture

20 August 2013

Andrew Alexander offers tools for appreciating the art and value of live performance while reflecting on gloATL's 2013 public art project, Liquid Culture.

A ballet dancer executes a difficult leap.
Ballet and Time
Essay

Ballet and Time

20 June 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Boston Ballet's 2013 triple-bill of George Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in C, and Wayne McGregor’s Chroma

screen shot of a tweet by @pangmeli that reads "I’m all for activist communities, queer communities etc, but communities are few and far between. what we have more of are scenes. Two signs that it’s a scene: it doesn’t have multiple generations (children, elders) and the members all have a suspiciously similar aesthetic."
Conversations Across Generations
Series

Conversations Across Generations

Dialogues with UK based Performance Artists

Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.