a Dance Mag

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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09/11/2025

Read about the design process of issues 4 and 5 of a Dance Mag.

"‘I approached a Dance Mag's visual direction as a foundation, not a constraint,’ designer Lilia Di Bella said. In our conversation, she explains how she drew from her dance background to let shapes and colors flow through the pages, creating a space where "meaning is made together with the read...

08/11/2025

Can Photography Capture the Invisible Energies Moving Within Us?

Photographer Jennifer Lee Delić and dancer-fighter Rasmus Branders' collaboration seeks to give form to the internal dance of masculine and feminine energy we all embody.

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