MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCES in the Massachusetts suburbs, circa mid-1990s, were on Friday nights. My friends would all be there at the gym, along with every girl we were crushing on. But not me. While the ...
When I was two years old, I started taking dance classes. I remember twirling to “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” in a small room made for small people, wearing a pink leotard and tutu and ballet slippers.
Dance and fitness have always been very closely related. As a professional dancer, you either get fitter through dance or you workout to improve your fitness so your dance performances also improve.
Indigenous dancer and author Ria Thundercloud shares her journey in dance. Finding My Dance - Indigenous dancer and author Ria Thundercloud shares how her journey in dance helped save her life and ...
The ‘I Did My Dance One Time on TikTok and Went Viral With It’ trend involves the main participant singing a particular line from Drake’s song “In The Bible.” The line usually starts at a low volume, ...
“I told my grandmother, I would love to dance as well. That’s all. That’s how it all started, at the Zama Dance School in Gugulethu.” It’s late in the afternoon when we speak, and Mamela Nyamza is at ...
You’d think I’d have answered the question by now. I mean, I’ve written a book called Why We Dance. You’d think that “we” includes me. It does and it doesn’t. The we includes me in so far as I ...
Ellen Allien is a German electronic musician and producer, and the founder of the techno label BPitch Control. Kraftwerk, “Das Model” Biggest input for my ears when I was a little girl. They changed ...
The power of this art lies in our ability to view it outside assumed ideas about the body. Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson rehearsing a Kinetic Light performance at the Whitney Museum. They are both ...