a Dance Mag

26/02/2026

Week 2 of Coffee with a Dancer brings us to black tea with Sasha Portyannikova.

Inside: Underground resistance, banned Russian books, post-punk from Bishkek, and why games distract us from self-censorship.

Read the full conversation at the link in the comment below.

20/02/2026

New series alert 💙

Once a week we have a quiet conversation with a dance artist whose work opens a window onto the world. Something to read slowly, sit with, and carry into your day.

First guest: Katja Vaghi on AI, mechanical ducks, and finding wabi-sabi in a busy life.

Link in bio or conment below 👇 to read and join us for future coffees.

04/12/2025

Issues 04 and 05 – Structure and Flow – are finally out! Find your copies at the link in the comment below 👇

Edited by: Jana Al Obeidyine, Gabriel Semerene, Parvathi Ramanathan, Anna Chwialkowska, Şebnem Sözer

Designed by: Lilia Di Bella

Cover photography by: Maria Harhouche

Contributors: Vinícius Portella, Ellen Jeffrey, Mariam Ala-Rashi, Sasha Portyannikova, Nathaniel Moore, Katja Vaghi, Michael O’Connor, Katja Vaghi, Tejaswini Loundo, Madison Vomastek, Nerda Khara, Erika Mattio, Shanny Rann, Andrea Dejean, Antje Brockmüller

Find your copies at:
UNDER THE COVER – Lisbon
DO YOU READ ME?! – Berlin
MAGCULTURE – London
ATHENAEUM – Amsterdam
CHANDAL STORE – Barcelona
CARMEN AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam
BOOKS ON THE MOVE – Bordeaux
KUBRICK – Kowloon

25/11/2025

Melissa Jones moves between two studios, two practices. In one, improvisation on marley floors—hazy gazes, circular motion, the ego retreating. In the other, Pilates reformers and precise repetitions realign what dance has loosened. Both spaces offer the same gift: flow state.

Read full text at the link in the comment 👇

21/11/2025

Michael O'Connor discovers that we're not like origami—we ARE origami. Every fold in evolution, every boundary we make, every distinction between dancing and drawing: all creases in a single sheet that never stops refolding itself.

Read "Flesh and Origami" in Issue 04: Structure. Coming soon!

18/11/2025

Alina Belyagina works from the margins to explore what persists in collapse. Her latest piece, Giving back the Blessings, brings vogue and Slavic folk into a single space, asking how movement carries the memory of resistance.

Find full interview in the comment!

Photo credit: María Constanza Meléndez,

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14/11/2025

“Can one dance their way to revolution?”

Greta Pieropan asks what happens when movement becomes resistance, when care, presence, and attention turn political.

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By Greta Pieropan — Amid a burning world, can dance be more than escape? A reflection on how movement rewires bodies, bridges divides, and quietly reshapes society—one drop at a time.

13/11/2025

“Can one dance their way to revolution?”

Greta asks what happens when movement becomes resistance, when care, presence, and attention turn political.

Read full article at the link in the comment below 🔻🔻🔻

12/11/2025

Tejaswini Loundo moves through flow, ego-death, and the cosmic rhythm of Naṭarāja to ask what it truly means to dance beyond the self. In issue 05: Flow of . Coming soon... Read more at the link in the comment below ⬇️

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10/11/2025

What happens when the body becomes both translator and translated? Read Melissa Jones's meditation on the sacred geography of studios, where flesh learns its own language through repetition, the ancient dialogue between effort and release.

Link in the comment👇