Dance
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Preparations for the Miyako Odori, Kyoto’s spring dance festival – in pictures
Geisha rehearse for a traditional dance that has been performed annually for more than 150 years Continue read…
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Preparations for the Miyako Odori, Kyoto’s spring dance festival – in pictures
Geisha rehearse for a traditional dance that has been performed annually for more than 150 years Continue read…
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Strike a pose: vogue balls go mainstream in New Zealand
Led by Māori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs …
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Japanese seniors pop and lock to breakdancing beats in latest sport tailored to ageing population
Members of Tokyo’s Ara Style Senior say they were inspired by the inclusion of breakdancing at this year’s Par…
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In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban
In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination an…
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‘She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist
Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about…
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‘I have to wear two hats’: Thailand’s breakdancing team confronts hair loss at the Asian Games
After breakdancing debuted at the games in China, members of the Thai national team say they needed support fo…
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Shanghai’s ‘voguing’ dancers step lightly to avoid official gaze – in pictures
Voguing is a dance style characterised by staccato hand motions and angular arm and body postures punctuated b…
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‘We’re all hip-hop family’: the artists fighting to get Afghan breakdancers to safety
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and thei…
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‘Drag is political’: the pioneering Indian event uniting art and activism
Artists from traditional communities and new wave performers to come together online for the country’s first d…
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Rickshaw driver’s son beats odds to join famed UK ballet school
After just four years’ training in India and some fast crowd-funding, Kamal Singh joins English National Balle…
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India’s classical music and dance ‘guru’ system hit by abuse allegations
Female musicians say abuse by gurus has been an open secret for years in a culture where ‘toxic and old-fashio…
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‘All men for 150 years’: women take centre stage at Royal New Zealand Ballet
The national ballet troupe will become the first classical company in the world to perform an entire year of w…