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A group of dancers performing in a high-energy dance class under purple lighting. A blonde dancer in a black crop top and heels strikes a low pose in the center foreground, surrounded by smiling group members dancing in high-heeled boots and athletic wear.
Photo: Lauren Berlin
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Healing in My Heels: On the Choreography of Womanhood

Lauren Berlin

A dancer reflects on womanhood, a twenty-year-old memory, and the difference between being watched and being witnessed.

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Applications for thINKingDANCE’s 2027 Emerging Writer’s Fellowship Are Open

In a dance studio with white walls, a light gray marley floor, and two large whiteboards along the back wall, situated above a double-stacked wooden ballet barre, eleven college students lay supine with their arms raised and legs parted in an “X” shape on the ground. They lay at different angles, breathing deeply, following the instructions of the teacher at the front of the room. The instructor, tD writer Jennifer Passios, faces the students. She wears a black Adidas jacket. Her hair falls in a half-up-half down updo as her arms reach skyward in the same “X” gesture that the students make on the ground.
Photo: Jacob Regan
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To You—who I think about all the time:

Jennifer Passios

A letter to my favorite student

The light’s red, the stage black. Dramatic. Devilish. Contrast and shadow are high on the six people in frame. Dead center, a dancer lays. Around her, four people point, laugh, and crouch over her body making the “loser” L on their forehead. In the bottom left corner, someone's leg, hip, and reaching hand are just in frame.
Photo: Matthew Caserta
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Apocalypse: We Hold Us

Xander Cobb

The only things left to live for are our lover’s touch and dancing all night.

Five women wearing a mix of ballet attire and club wear crowd an empty bathtub in a white-tiled bathroom. Two of the women sit on the tub's edge. The other three sprawl out inside the tub. All five look up. The camera captures them from a high angle. Along the walls costumes including silk dresses and white tutus hang.
Photo: Ben Marcus
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Barre, Club, Another Club

Nadia Ureña

One must imagine Petipas at the function.

A young person with shoudler length red hair stands in a green long sleeve shirt hodling a blank white sign. onthe left a large mural of a female face looking up, and scales and lotus flower.
Photo: Amelia Candeub
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Notes from Within Blank Placard Dance, Replay

Jonathan Stein

Protest, a living legacy and a committed practice

Dancers stand close together, forming a clump. They face in all directions, their bodies back to back, front to back, and back to side. Each one grips a wooden post holding high attached white posters. They wear bright yellows, purples, reds, blues, pinks, teals, and oranges. Some are visibly sweaty. Dancers facing the camera look serious and a bit fatigued. Glimpses of blue sky, clouds, a street, and city buildings fill the cracks between their blank signs.
Photo: Amelia Candeub
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Is Halprin’s postmodernism as radical today as it was in 1967?

Xander Cobb

Blank Placard Dance, Replay in Philadelphia

Three women in faded blue and white jumpsuits stand supporting or leaning into each other. Marcie Mamura stands in the middle; she looks down and away, the only face visible in the group. Chloe Marie embraces Mamura from behind. Katherine Kiefer Stark supports Mamura from the front, also in an embrace. The three women create a quiet, intimate, peaceful tableau. Bright light illuminates their bodies against a dark, shadowed background.
Photo: Bridgette Ivkovic
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The Naked Stark’s Deep Dive Enchantment at the Water Works

Jonathan Stein

‘swimming through the stars or schools of fish’

Delwin Elk Bear Fiddler kneels with one arm outstretched to the left and the other bent across his body holding a wooden pipe. Fiddler wears bright attire with multicolored strips of ribbons and a yellow feathered headdress. He kneels on a brown animal hide near a drum and several piles of plastic hoops in a blackbox theater.
Photo: Joshua Crone
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The Chief Called Upon the Grass Dancers to Purify the Ground, and the Tradition Lived On

Caitlin Green

Dance and oral tradition of the Lakota people

Photo: An evening with Simone Forti, K.J. Holmes and Daniel Lepkoff And a conversation with the artists moderated by Wendy Perron. "Sundays on Broadway" Cathy Weis Projects Performers: performance photographed: Sunday, June 4, 2017; 6:00 PM at WeisAcres in SoHo, 537 Broadway, #3 (between Prince and Spring Streets) NYC; Photograph: © 2017 Richard Termine PHOTO CREDIT - Richard Termine
Photo: Richard Termine
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Simone Forti—A Remembrance

Eric Schoefer

"Notice what you notice"