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Video: ‘Freedom’ by Jon Batiste and ensemble

Jon Batiste and ensemble perform ‘Freedom.”

December 13, 2025 · 11 Comments

Linda Belans: The mirror doesn’t lie

Do I look fat
in this outrage?
puffed up?

October 11, 2025 · 13 Comments

Kari Gunter-Seymour: To the Woman in Walmart Who Was Dancing to Shakira in the Pots and Pans Aisle

my own feet beginning to slide
and shuck, drawn into that vortex,
adding my own brand
of Arriba, Arriba to the mix

August 18, 2025 · 18 Comments

Miriam Levine: Let’s Go

That out queen
Mark Morris, hefty as he is, dances the role of Queen
Dido to measures of Purcell’s opera and, flashing his
long arms, makes Dido’s suicide lyrical.

November 28, 2024 · 8 Comments

Sharon Fagan McDermott: I Dream of Kevin Bacon Playing Guitar to his Goats

and I ask him “why you, Kevin Bacon, why
are you in my dream? I’ve not even
watched Footloose all the way through.”

October 19, 2024 · 17 Comments

KATIE MYERS: How Folklore Can Shape Our Climate Futures

As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together.

May 11, 2024 · 6 Comments

Video: Nick Cave | Forothermore

This short documentary presents the work of wildly imaginative artist, designer and dancer Nick Cave who expresses his liberation on the dance floor as a queer Black man.

December 23, 2023 · 8 Comments

Dawn Potter: A Small Celebration of Baron Wormser and Teresa Carson

Lived-Time, Art-Time, and Friendship

July 2, 2023 · 8 Comments

Video: Chinyanta Kabaso | The Dazzling Diversity of African Dance

The dazzling diversity of African dance — in 14 moves

May 20, 2023 · 6 Comments

James C. Nieh: Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language

Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.

March 19, 2023 · 2 Comments

Video: Vegan Poem

At the current turning point in our relationship with the earth, Federico García Lorca’s vision of the injustice in our mistreatment of animals is even more poignant.

February 25, 2023 · 5 Comments

Nicole Froio: Transforming Ourselves to Transform the World

The concept of cuerpo-territorio (“body-territory”) around which the Xinka women in Guatemala organize themselves recognizes the interconnectedness between human bodies and all other living beings. 

December 13, 2022 · 2 Comments

Video: The Prodigy

Two days in the extraordinary life of the Bolshoi’s prima ballerina

September 11, 2022 · 2 Comments

Video: Shahmaran

The Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half snake and half woman. The first human she encounters is a young man named Camasb who gets stuck in her cave after he tries to steal honey.

August 16, 2022 · 3 Comments

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