An Introduction By
Embodying Honesty
A look at how dancers archive and translate embodied ‘language’ and histories across culture and gender divides.
Nuevxs Latinidades: Merián Soto and RUBBERBANDance Group
This essay explores two performances presented ten years apart: Merián Soto’s Sacude in 1999 and Victor Quijada’s Punto Ciego in 2009, viewed through the lens of Latinidad during the decade between them.
Culture in Context, As Import, and In Exchange
This essay challenges us to peer through the lenses of cultural appropriation, historical contextualization, and culture exchange when examining dance broadly, twentieth century dance specifically, and modern dance pioneers.
In Place and Time: Dance as a Conduit for Embodied History
Dance, historically, has offered a portal between planes of existence, past and present, and embodied alternate realities. This essay explores this act of transcendence through works by Eiko Otake and Joanna Haigood.
Explore Other Themes
What is Dance?
Curated by
Maura Keefe
Dance of the African Diaspora
Curated by
John Perpener
Women in Dance
Curated by
Maura Keefe
Men in Dance
Curated by
Sydney Skybetter
Tap
Curated by
Brian Seibert