Mouthwater: A Disabled Dance Festival started as a deeply personal dream for co-founders Saira Barbaric, NEVE Mazique, and Vanessa Hernández Cruz, and fellow curators Mx. Pucks A’plenty and India Harville. “Throughout time, our communities were often seen as either undesirable, objectified, or as a deficit,” the curators write in a joint statement. “We wanted to […]

For Deaf audiences, watching performances with traditional sign language interpretation can feel like watching a tennis match: Their focus has to toggle between whatever is happening onstage and the interpreter, often off to the side, who might be communicating what the music sounds like or what’s being said. That’s if the performance even has an interpreter, which all too often is not the case.

With a wide range of spoken, signed, and movement languages, the 2023 Dance Magazine Awards celebrated the singular contexts and voices of the awardees.

This month’s picks include premieres, Little Princes and a principal dancer’s farewell that’s sure to leave you sobbing. Here are the shows our writers and editors around the country are most excited to catch. Pearls in PA STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos Kitoko Chargois, Courtesy PearlArts Studios PITTSBURGH Choreographer Staycee Pearl is on […]