Dancers Clara Desportes and Simon Lavenaire in Fort de France during Emancipation Day celebrations in 2016.
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After years of marginalization, the bèlè dance has been embraced by a growing community who see it as a form of social and spiritual healing.
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Choreographer Stephanie Lake brings together nine dancers and nine drummers in this thrillingly original work.
The dance floor was a place of belonging in the face of homophobic violence, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and moralistic representations of gay life.
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Toronto’s Gay Community Dance Committee funded lesbian and gay liberation organizing in an unkind era that made community work not only difficult, but increasingly necessary.
Buhle Ngaba as The Student holds Shaun Oelf as The Dancer.
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Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize, What Happens was inspired by the discovery of a slave burial site.
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Rachel Arianne Ogle’s new chorography is an exploration of mortality and death.
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Technical brilliance is one thing. Musicality another. Here is our pick of the skaters who combine the two.
We need a new script about women and HIV.
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Can a film’s artful telling of experiences of stigma and HIV, using dance, help promote empathy and compassion?
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Some people do inherit traits which promote dance ability - but with hard work almost anyone can learn to dance well due to the plasticity of the brain
As more normalcy returns to schools, will arts education programs rebound?
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Even before the pandemic, access to arts programs and qualified instructors varied greatly among schools and districts.
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Extracurricular activities help children from low-income suburbs close the gap between them and their better-off peers. But subsidies for these activities are patchy and often limited to sport.
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Beyond creativity and thinking skills, arts education will help you enhance your communication and expressive skills, as well as boosting your confidence and self-esteem.
Laying claim to a dance isn’t as straightforward as doing the same for a poem.
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In choreography, the gray areas of copyright law make it difficult to determine what constitutes copyright infringement or plagiarism.
About 62% of Sierra Leonean women aged 15-49 have experienced physical or sexual violence.
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Theatre is able to create a space for discussion about how and why women experience physical and emotional violence.
Protesters march at Alausa Secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos State, in October 2020.
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The protests paved the way for healing, vitality and a new vista of productive life.
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Some hard decisions need to be made if we are to get better value-for-money performing arts funding from central and local government.
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From choreographer Emma Fishwick, this slow, dreamy performance and its cast of 15 dancers, speaks especially loudly to Australia of today.
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This new work from Restless Dance Theatre is staged in a bowling ally, and asks us to consider the possibilities of perspective.
Bangarra dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith in Bennelong.
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A new film about Bangarra Dance Theatre carries the deep Indigenous knowledge and personal trauma behind its 30-year history.
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Creative dance combines physical activity with creativity.
Dance troupe Diversity’s Black Lives Matter performance has received a lot of complaints.
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Complaints stated that family shows like Britain’s Got Talent shouldn’t be political. However, the problem is much more complex and sinister than simple politics