Upping the ante on dance coverage and conversation
Trisha Brown: The Joy of Looking Back
Photo: Maria Baranova

Trisha Brown: The Joy of Looking Back

Reconstructions and a world-premiere continue Trisha Brown´s legacy

Brendan McCall
May 9, 2025

Part 1: On Dance Writing, Improvisation, and Dancing Forever—An Interview with Lisa Kraus
Photo: Lois Greenfield

Part 1: On Dance Writing, Improvisation, and Dancing Forever—An Interview with Lisa Kraus

Kraus reveals the origins of thINKingDANCE and discusses the relevance of dance writing.

Charly Santagado
May 10, 2025

A Ballet for Everyone
Photo: Vikki Sloviter

A Ballet for Everyone

Jennifer Archibald’s world premiere at the BalletX Festival at the Mann

Ziying Cui
May 11, 2025

Blend In, Stand Out: The First African American Rockette Shares her Story
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Jones

Blend In, Stand Out: The First African American Rockette Shares her Story

“Becoming Spectacular” is an earnest memoir of illusion and perfection

Megan Mizanty
May 12, 2025

Megan Mazarick’s Searing Subversions
Photo: Jano Cohen

Megan Mazarick’s Searing Subversions

"soapbox" explores the nature of the ‘performative self’ versus our interior lives.

Jonathan Stein
May 18, 2025

Erick Hawkins Dance Company in Pure Lucia: Quidditas Suchness
Photo courtesy of Bowerbird

Erick Hawkins Dance Company in Pure Lucia: Quidditas Suchness

Hawkins’ dance creates a language of subtleties, compelling and engaging in its simplicity and intentionality

Caitlin Green
May 19, 2025

Dancing Beyond the Void
Photo: Matthew Morrocco

Dancing Beyond the Void

An emerging choreographer´s dance about AIDS from a queer, Gen Z perspective

Brendan McCall
May 19, 2025

When the Muzzle Comes Off, Who Do You Bite?
Photo: Ofentse Kwenaite

When the Muzzle Comes Off, Who Do You Bite?

Portia Wells finds their bark.

Rachel DeForrest Repinz
May 31, 2025

Part 2: On Dance Writing, Improvisation, and Dancing Forever—An Interview with Lisa Kraus
Photo: Arnaud Beelen

Part 2: On Dance Writing, Improvisation, and Dancing Forever—An Interview with Lisa Kraus

Kraus takes on the role ‘missionary for dancing forever’

Charly Santagado
June 3, 2025

“Yo te salvo a ti; tú me salvas a mí”
Photo: des amaiya

“Yo te salvo a ti; tú me salvas a mí”

Berry documents how rumba counters predetermined sanctions and barriers imposed by a money hungry and stratifying regime.

desire amaiya
June 5, 2025

Ankita Sharma's dhoka/Betrayal/: Militarization and Myth-Making
Photo: Steven Pisano

Ankita Sharma's dhoka/Betrayal/: Militarization and Myth-Making

Ankita Sharma's intimate dance interrogates their relationship with India.

Brendan McCall
June 5, 2025

Venus Flytrap: A goddess bound to this earth
Photo: Naomieh Jovin, courtesy of BlackStar Projects

Venus Flytrap: A goddess bound to this earth

Spring has arrived, and the earth is enlivened.

Noel Price-Bracey
June 8, 2025

News

Welcoming New Writers to thINKingDANCE!

Join us in welcoming our newest writers to thINKingDANCE! This January, we received applications from 50 writers interested in joining our team, our highest…
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2025 Open Call for New tD Writers (Now Closed)

Deadline Extended to February 15th! thINKingDANCE is seeking 10-15 new writers to join our Philly-based organization. We encourage you to apply if you:​ Want…
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Top 20 Articles of Year 2024

This year, twenty-six writers contributed to our thINKingDANCE publication. We write about what artists do with respect for the labor and intentions that…
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A Bit About Us

thINKingDANCE is a collective of independent writers based in the Philadelphia area. Founded in 2011, we produce a digital journal about dance in its broadest sense. We foster the practice of dance writing; build an archive of movement-based art; and work to dismantle gatekeeping in dance criticism. We pursue these goals by developing our writing through peer-critique sessions, workshops with guest educators, and a uniquely rigorous two-tiered editing process. thINKingDANCE is a place where ideas thrive; where editors, writers, and readers engage one another in transformative dialogue; and where we imagine a more vibrant and just dance media landscape. Read more.

Funding

thINKingDANCE gratefully acknowledges support from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and from our readers and other individual donors like you! thINKingDANCE is supported by Critical Minded, an initiative to invest in cultural critics of color cofounded by The Nathan Cummings Foundation and The Ford Foundation.

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The  thINKingDANCE Archive provides a tool for researchers and reporters to read articles published by thINKingDANCE from  2011-2019. See the Archive.


 

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