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Dance
Dance news and analysis from The Nation
March 14, 2023
The Creative, Collective, Queer Project of Raving
In an interview, McKenzie Wark offers insight on the rave as utopia, breaking through gender dysphoria, and her newest work of auto-theory.
Zoë Beery
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Geoffrey Mak
March 4, 2023
The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet
Alice Robb’s
Don’t Think, Dear
and Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s
What You Become in Flight
explore both the liberating sense of art and the domineering logic of ballet.
Glory Liu
December 15, 2022
The Mythology of George Balanchine
A conversation with Jennifer Homans about the ballet master’s literary influences, his complicated legacy, and the metaphysical side of dance.
Dilara O’Neil
July 8, 2022
Wealth of Destruction
Rich nations ignore reality and everyone pays.
Peter Kuper
May 5, 2022
Strippers Seize the Moment, Turning a Lockout Into a Picket Line
How many assaults, rapes, and shootings will it take for these performers to be afforded even the basic protections a union could provide?
Antonia Crane
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May 3, 2022
Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance
Lynn Garafola’s biography of the dancer and choreographer charts her globetrotting life and radical art.
Jennifer Wilson
April 14, 2021
Undanced Dances During a Pandemic
From inside a California prison come choreographies of the mind.
Suchi Branfman
May 7, 2020
The Coronavirus Means Curtains for Artists
The loss of revenue from live events is only the start of this particular disaster.
William Deresiewicz
September 25, 2019
Fascist Celebrity Rehab
What are collaborators to do when their career is on the line? They get by with a little help from their friends.
Tom Tomorrow
August 22, 2019
Dismantling Transphobia at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Three performances at the world’s biggest arts festival react to transphobic rhetoric in the UK.
Elliot Ross
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