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Performance Art vs Performing Arts

ByGillianRhodes February 20, 2024May 27, 2025

I’m sure there are many people who are a bit confused by the genre of performance art, which can range from the baffling to the bizarre and everything in between. Sometimes it seems to overlap with performing arts in some way, and sometimes it’s on its own planet altogether. There is, however, a clear difference,…

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Why Contemporary Dance is Colonial

ByGillianRhodes February 13, 2024May 27, 2025

It should not come as a surprise that dance and contemporary dance, while often seen or celebrated as a connecting feature of humanity, has been used for colonial purposes. Whether that’s controlling who dances and why in colonized countries or ongoing barriers around who can do what style, it’s really only in the past couple…

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