• A Club Where Lions Dance and Traditions Take Root - The New ... - New York Times

    New York Times
    A Club Where Lions Dance and Traditions Take Root - The New ...
    New York Times
    Brandon Lee, 15, practiced with a lion head during a rehearsal for the Chinese Freemason Athletic Club dance troupe in Lower Manhattan. Credit An Rong Xu ...and more »
  • Werk for Peace dance party: What the queer dance party outside ... - Quartz

    Werk for Peace dance party: What the queer dance party outside ... - Quartz
    Werk for Peace dance party: What the queer dance party outside ...
    Quartz
    For LGBT activists and most humans invested in equality and justice, Mike Pence is troubling, if not terrifying. Yet as this beacon of prejudice is sworn in as vice ...and more »
  • On my radar: Pankaj Mishra’s cultural highlights

    On my radar: Pankaj Mishra’s cultural highlights
    The writer on Riz Ahmed in The Night Of, his favourite cafe, the insights of William Empson and extraordinary Indian bharatanatyam dancingPankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist. Born in 1969, he grew up in small towns in northern India and studied in Allahabad and New Delhi. On graduating, Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where, he has said there was “nothing to do except read and write”. He contributes essays and reviews regularly to the New York Review of Books, th
  • Giselle review – Xander Parish steals the show

    Giselle review – Xander Parish steals the show
    Coliseum, London
    English National Ballet guest artist Xander Parish – British star of the Mariinsky – is world-class. Isn’t it time he was lured back to London?Mary Skeaping’s production of Giselle was commissioned for London Festival Ballet in 1971. Skeaping danced with Pavlova in the 1920s, and in recreating the piece worked closely with Tamara Karsavina, who performed the title role in tsarist St Petersburg. London Festival Ballet became English National Ballet in 1989
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