What Does “Healthy” Mean? A Look at Dancers’ Body Types and Shifting Notions of Wellness

It wasn’t so long ago that university dance programs were affiliated with physical education departments, and some schools were slower than others in moving their dance students into the humanities. […]

Dance Play Is Serious Business: Young Minds Require Freedom

Photo courtesy of artist “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children” -Nelson Mandela Recently, a colleague shared his frustration about […]

Collaborative Optimism: a score for a -ship

  I found love in the palm of my hand. My fingers reach into a primordial, interconnected web of memory that manifests tangibly in the landscapes I have traversed. When […]

Being a Body

KJ Dahlaw Photo courtesy of KJ Dahlaw. [ID: A close up of KJ Dahlaw, a white, non-binary trans person with blue eyes, button up shirt and tattoo on forearm, wearing […]

Stories in the Moment: Creating shared spaces of belonging for and with people living with dementia

All screenshots captured by Magda Kaczmarska [ID: Eight images show Magda, a person with short brown hair in a white turtleneck and blue track pants and Bob and Barb, two […]

Cracked Open: Reflection on Moving the Body-Brain, Moving the Brain-Body – a danced lecture

Prompted by Dominic’s creative matchmaking, Paul and I had a conversation via Zoom that allowed us to speak about our dance-making as a way of engaging with and transforming difficult legacies that are invariably written on and encoded in our bodies.

What is “Post-artum” Depression?

It was a strange feeling but I can only compare it to a profound sadness of separation.

Put Yourself On the Beam

An email exchange between guest editor Rowena Richie and butoh legend Hiroko Tamano 

If They Don’t Give You a Seat at the Table, Make Your Own Table

(Photo by Steve Disenhof. ID: LINES Ballet Training Program students perform in Chuck Wilt’s “Mural” in a black box theater. The dancers stand leaning back on a bent leg with […]

Megan Nicely/Dance with Shoshana Green and Kevin Corcoran: humXn forms

The concert humXn forms explores the life of sensations that reside underneath human appearance. Drawing on butoh, contemporary dance, and somatic practices, ignited by sonic textures and language, the 2 […]