Synchronous Objects: What Else Might Dance Look Like?: An Interview with Professor Norah Zuniga-Shaw

Back in college, while in one of my countless rehearsals I remember thinking, “I wonder what areas of the stage we use the most?” Little did I know that this […]

On Choreographic Thinking

ā€œDance is not a way of depicting, but a way of thinkingā€1 ā€”Tere Oā€™Connor I recently took a dance composition workshop with New York artist Jeanine Durning that really made […]

Leading the Dance Field Through Change

During my first few months as the executive director of Dance/USA, I engaged dance leaders from around the country in conversations about the state of the field. What are they […]

Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change

Dancing Care In April 2021, right after weā€™d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator.Ā  We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]

II International online dance festival | DANCE LINE 2021

You are welcome to enjoy one of the most important dance events – the II International dance festival DANCE LINE which will be organized online 16 January 2021. The festival […]

Cultivating Freedom and Power in the Dance Classroom

Iā€™m watching my two year old dance. Heā€™s spinning fast, letting the full skirt of his dancing dress ripple around him, arms splayed, eyes closed. He sometimes spirals into the […]

Longing: The Global Postmodern Poetics of David RoussĆØveā€™s ā€œSaudadeā€, Mar 2009

The same moment I discovered how much my body could be hated is the same moment my heart discovered how much I could be loved. This was a life that […]

Afrimerica, A journey to be at home with ourselves

Is there any place on the planet more misunderstood, more misused, unknown, mistaken, proclaimed, mythologized and unresolved than the continent of Africa (the answer is ā€˜no,ā€™ btw)?

SPEAK: Memory/Place

ā€œIs it possible I think of my home in every thought, in every hour? I surrender myself. I dedicate to her these teardrops continually falling.ā€ ā€” From IIbn Hamdisā€™ ancient […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2012

The images above were taken at Dancersā€™ Groupā€™s annual holiday party and those present are representative of our members, community partners, fiscally sponsored projects, board members and all of our […]