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While the Afro Flow crew usually attracts around 40-50 attendees at a regular class, after just one week of streaming, they have more than 7,000 views on Facebook alone. Salmon Jones says she's had attendees from as close by as Northeastern, to folks tuning in from Barbados.
A range of views from readers
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"Dance is not the simplest thing physically, and you’re also in a vulnerable space. You have to work to change your body, you have to tune in to every limb, and it’s such a deeply vulnerable experience and you have to really focus. I teach a lot of life lessons through my classes."
Dancers and members of the queer community alike are invited to put on their dancing shoes at the second annual Dancing Queerly ...
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me,” Charles Dickens’ famous Ebenezer Scrooge declares at the end of A Christmas Carol ...
I went to several SLAMS while writing this article, each time trying to find the right words to describe an experience that is deliberately without words. I walked, ran, spun furiously, held poses, pretended to be a mouse as I scrambled on the floor.
The scene outside the Orpheum theater last Saturday looked like any other night before a show. People lined up in the cold. Security guards waved metal detectors around puffy black coats, while women and men opened up their (usually black) backpacks and purses ...
Amit Bhambi has been around Bhangra all his life. The colorful costumes, the upbeat music, the expressions and energetic movements—all of it is familiar to him. When he asks Americans unfamiliar with the Punjabi-style dance what they think of it?
“They ...
