Moving Embodied Dance Practices Online
The shift to online and distance pandemic learning comes amid a larger push to rethink the boundaries of embodied performance in dance.
Tag: dance
Dancing Decolonization: Embodying Communal Pedagogical Practices
There is so much learning and unlearning to do and teaching dance is one of my entry points into anti-racist work.
Breathing Room
Perhaps there is a little piece of utopia in every struggle, or perhaps the actual fight through the struggle is utopic.
Dancing Around a Pandemic: An Industry and Community Altered By COVID
Two dance students illuminate how being segregated from their audiences, partners, and instructors is spurring innovation and a sense of community in the discipline.
In Praise of Illegibility: Identification, Failure, and Joel Parsons’s Beholding and Being Held
The body is more than just the instrument through which we can resist; how we understand the body itself offers a site of resistance.
Come Unity: Activism in the Virtual Realm
“Come.Unity” serves as a gathering place for Black optimism, fostering a Black future without Black death at its end but an end with joy—a communal victory dance.
Peripeteia: A Poem
“Invite my hands into yours despite our legs being drawn away from each other Othered.”
Move, Dance, Talk, Resist
For immigrant women to dance and expose themselves through movement is a political act of resistance.
Switch: Consent and Gender Non-Conformity in Social Partner Dancing
Fusion-as-Activism is political project that centers gender non-conformity and consent by transmuting these political beliefs into aesthetic and actively enforced social values.
Call for Contributors: Political Art: The Movement(s) of Protest
TAHR seeks essays that explore the role of socially-engaged art (including visual arts, music, dance, ritual, digital arts etc.) in protest movements and other forms of grassroots direct action
The Activist History Review 