Tag: Dancing

Not an earthly step, but you may wonder how it came into being Some heavenly creatures and saints raise it as a stream Gliding and swirling but keeping each step alike It looks this, but not like the guy on the bike Raising the bars and voices all around A Tsunamic rhythm touches your...

Camel dancing is a centuries-old tradition in many Middle Eastern and North African cultures. It involves trained camels performing choreographed movements to music, often in front of large crowds. While originally a way to celebrate special occasions and religious festivals, camel dancing has be...

The House of the Faun, renowned as one of the most remarkable discoveries in Pompeii, derives its name from the bronze sculpture of the dancing Faun that is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The construction of this building took place in the early 2nd century BC, o...

 Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient art form that has been practiced for centuries in many cultures around the world. It involves the manipulation of flat, cut-out figures made of leather, paper or other materials, which are then projected onto a screen to create the illu...

Carrying around a secret is bad for your mental health. I’m an expert in this. For years, I struggled with reconciling being gay and being afraid of sharing this with anyone in my life. Fearing that if anyone knew, I would end up another statistic in the LGBTQIA homeless youth crisis or worse....

Geneva, Switzerland, where the whispers of particle accelerators and the hum of scientific inquiry fill the air, stands a curious figure: a bronze statue of Lord Shiva, the cosmic dancer. This unlikely juxtaposition of ancient deity and modern physics laboratory has sparked fascination and debate fo...

Yumiko Yoshioka is a butoh dance master who plays Hiro in Hiro’s Lied, a dance and theater performance. Her mother had dementia. Hiro is a mother who has dementia. Yumiko Yoshioka used to perform under the stage name of Mizelle Hanaoka as a cabaret dancer. Hiro is a mother w...

The man couldn’t speak, but he sure knew how to twerk. The outside concert wasn’t playing twerk music, but the disabled 45-year-old man didn’t care. He came to twerk, and that’s all there was to it. I watched as the man, let’s call him Silent Twerker, held onto th...