カテゴリー: Dance
Geisha rehearse for a traditional dance that has been performed annually for more than 150 years Continue reading…
Geisha rehearse for a traditional dance that has been performed annually for more than 150 years Continue reading…
Led by Māori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs to Wellington’s national museumIn a large gallery at New Zealand’s national museum in Wellington, a 600-strong crowd cheers ecstatically as a …
Members of Tokyo’s Ara Style Senior say they were inspired by the inclusion of breakdancing at this year’s Paris OlympicsHead spins and monkey flips are noticeable by their absence. But in their place there is a lot of laughter and a thumping beat, alo…
In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fieldsOne of Alexandra Ndolo’s greatest career achieve…
Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her lifeWhen she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first banyan tree just outside the remote Indian village of Hulikal, i…
After breakdancing debuted at the games in China, members of the Thai national team say they needed support for hair treatmentA member of Thailand’s national breakdancing team has spoken about one of the lesser known challenges of the sport – hair loss…
Voguing is a dance style characterised by staccato hand motions and angular arm and body postures punctuated by brief pauses. Popularised in 1990 by a hit Madonna song and the documentary Paris is Burning, the trend has drawn adherents in China too, wi…
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
Artists from traditional communities and new wave performers to come together online for the country’s first drag conferenceTwo years ago, in early June 2019, a young man stepped on stage at a small cafe in the south Indian city of Hyderabad to sing La…
After just four years’ training in India and some fast crowd-funding, Kamal Singh joins English National Ballet SchoolKamal Singh did not even know what ballet was when he turned up nervously at the Imperial Fernando Ballet School, in Delhi, during the…
Female musicians say abuse by gurus has been an open secret for years in a culture where ‘toxic and old-fashioned patriarchy’ holds swayOne of India’s most venerated cultural traditions – the centuries-old guru-shishya (disciple) method of learning cla…
The national ballet troupe will become the first classical company in the world to perform an entire year of works choreographed by womenIt’s an ethereal art form in which dancers, who are overwhelmingly female, strive for unattainable perfection perfo…