Dance Archives - Public Seminar

Literature

Electronic Music’s Savior Complex

Amphetamines, techno, and radical politics in Aria Aber’s Good Girl

June 16, 2025 • by Alexandra Chaves

Those who set foot in Berlin’s famous nightclubs can sense desire coursing through the air, as palpable as the reverberations of the electronic music within. It’s an easy enough formula of seduction: a door policy that leaves you seeking approval from staff who never disclose their criteria for entry; dark, ...

Multi-Verse

Dancing in Purgatory With Devon Walker-Figueroa

Episode 16: “Silences are as carefully plotted as each syllable”

October 11, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 16 of Multi-Verse, Devon Walker-Figueroa reads her poem “Private Lessons,” in which a dying man determines that his young pupil must become a prima ballerina, and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the uses of silence, breaking Dante’s rhyme scheme, and what it means to be haunted ...

Dancing in Purgatory With Devon Walker-Figueroa

Film & Performing Arts

The Transformations of Katherine Dunham

The dance pioneer’s contributions to postmodern anthropology

June 11, 2024 • by Megan Robinson

The possibilities open to an anthropologist engaging with her fieldwork in a creative way is what drew me to the Dunham Technique in the first place....

Multi-Verse Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

“ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” challenges the confines of the stage

May 31, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 8 of Multi-Verse, poet India Lena González reads and discusses her poem “ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham....

Multi-Verse Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

Uncategorized

Dancing is my Amazing Grace

How art taken up as a child has shaped the rhythm of my life

November 25, 2020 • by Katherine Huggins

Dance is my catharsis: when I dance, the rest of the world fades away. I could not be more grateful for my dance education—it has propelled me to unimaginable heights and unexpected friendships. I’ve traveled the country to better my dancing, and in the process I’ve befriended people from all over ...

Events

Dance+Talk: Paramodernities Live!

Streaming performances with commentary, May 4-9, 2020, at 3pm

May 4, 2020 • by Julia Foulkes

Questions frame the construction of Netta Yerushalmy’s monumental performance project, Paramodernities, which debuted in 2018. And from May 4-9, the questions and conversation will move online, with daily streaming of an installment followed by commentary and chat with noted theorists and artists. Yerushalmy pulled me into the project as the writer and a performer in ...

Art & Design

Dancing is Work

And it’s one of many ways we experience magic time

December 14, 2019 • by Stuart Hodes

I asked Vernon Scott, President of the Board of Directors, if he would do me a favor: hold this event on Wednesday -- because it’s my 95th birthday. He said no. In the mid 1950s, I was sitting on the steps of my loft residence on East 17th Street talking with ...