Umi IMAN dances the Jingle Dress Dance against a white background, wearing a sacred regalia known as the Jingle Dress. IMAN’s dress, like others of its kind, is adorned with rows of metallic cones that create sound as she moves. The Jingle Dress Dance is a healing dance that originated with the Ojibwe people and is now embraced across many Native communities.

Creating a Home for Afro-Indigenous Dance

Afro-Indigenous Muslim dance artist Umi IMAN explores how home, identity, and community shape her work through Al Taw’am and Sequoia Ascension, using dance as a tool for cultural preservation, resistance, and belonging.

March 30, 2026  |  Read Article

Reimagining the Idea of the Body

Bosnian/Swedish/American choreographer/performance artist mersiha messiha reimagines the idea of the body to address larger social issues in the globalized world.

January 20, 2020  |  Read Article

Telling Our Truths

Nia & Ness - a Black, lesbian, dancer-poet performance art duo based in Brooklyn, New York - share their choreographic process and how their conversations and experience inform all their work.

July 22, 2019  |  Read Article

Knitting Stories Through Dance

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY ANDRE YEW Trina Mannino is a dancer, choreographer and writer in Brooklyn who recently embarked on the project Ghost Women: A Dance and Knitting Installation, a 30-minute outdoor performance featuring a multigenerational cast of knitters and dancers. Sparked by conversations about aging and the duality of feeling […]

September 13, 2018  |  Read Article