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06/06/2022

Some fun Monday news! We are extending your June issue submissions deadline!

We are especially seeking writing that examines, illustrates, reflects upon , or otherwise depicts your experience with DANCE AROUND THE WORLD, whether it be teaching, traveling, taking class, leaving home, or coming back. 2000 words max.

DM or email us with questions! We can’t wait to hear from you!

🚨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS🚨3 more days to send us your movement based art, photography, poetry, essays! 📧: contact@dancegeist...

24/05/2022

🚨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS🚨
3 more days to send us your movement based art, photography, poetry, essays!

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19/05/2022

▪️the fierce / JOY /November 2021 issue ▪️

10/05/2022

FROM OUR APRIL ISSUE
by Mythili Zatakia

I was not born to dance.

Maybe I was born to move. And remain in motion, even when stopping made more sense.

That loss of sense and self is primarily why we dance.
And so it is in dance that the chaos of my restlessness found cause, structure, and purpose.

My family sensed this restlessness long before I held onto a barre to steady myself or managed to hold my torso straight in Tatta Adavu (the first combination of fundamentals in Bharata Natyam).

When I was led to do both, the disquiet began to make way for the purest, most permanent love I have ever experienced in my life—dance. Particularly classical dance, because there are few artistic forms as disciplinary, definitive, and sublime.

It did not begin with love. It began with anguish and tantrums and tears streaming down my cheeks days before a weekly class. I simply didn’t want to go, I didn’t want to be told how to sit and stand and balance and control, I didn’t want to hold my arms a certain way, and most of all, I didn’t understand why a little girl had to obey so many instructions all at once!

Bharata Natyam came first, or rather, I was talked and walked into this particular classical art form first.

Originally from the Southern part of my country, Bharata Natyam is an exquisite and spry art form that communicates thought, feeling and story through intricate footwork, meaningful gestures of the limbs, facial expressions, and expansive movement.

For all the right reasons, my mother, reinforced by my aunt in the States, thought this was the classical dance I should begin with. Only years after I was the six-year- old thrown into a ring of rehearsals and precision and technique and posture and poise did it occur to me that this was their attempt at redeeming a disappearing awareness of India’s artistic heritage.

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pic 1: Kevin Lobo
pic 2: Natasha Samant

30/04/2022

Advice and wisdom from our very own April cover star, on this

“As we evolve as artists and become connected to what we want to say, I would like them to remember that your voices are a continuation of voices that have already paved the way. Pay homage to your foundation and know that it has allowed you to sing your song, Honor it so we can continue that foundation with your magic. Have joys. Give sound to your laughter. I know it can be stressful being in the arts but find the time to keep trusting, discovering, and learning your voice. Take breaks in life to enjoy everything you can around you. Life is here for us to find things that we might be afraid of to find. I love to laugh at me and laugh at you; with you! Some of my past students say, "You are still dancing full out, and I'm not!" I can't explain it. I also say, "Hey, look my leg is higher than yours - come on! I can't be looking better than you!"

🖤thank you sheila. we love you!

18/04/2022

FROM THE APRIL 2022 ISSUE
“Architecture of Thirty”
writing and collage x .myers

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13/04/2022

🌎GLOBAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Dancegeist Magazine is open for dance-centered art, photography, personal essay, news, and current event submissions for our June 2022 issue!

🌎 Tag all of your international dancer friends! We would love to see how many countries we can represent in this issue! We want to hear from dancers all over the world. ⚡️

12/04/2022

An incredible art submission from our current issue by ▪️🔳◾️

“The Dance (Matisse)”

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07/04/2022

From our February 2022 issue 〰️

x the incredible

06/04/2022

Behind the scenes with light beam and for our April 2022 Education Issue!

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05/04/2022

Hello dancers and followers! Please consider being a Patron for just $5 a month! One hundred percent of your contribution will go to keeping Dancegeist alive and running. It is important for us to keep this magazine completely FREE for the dance community. Every little bit counts. Thank you all! xo.

This month we have some exclusive footage of teaching at and some hot behind the scenes footage during our April cover shoot!

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31/03/2022

◾️DANCEGEIST APRIL “EDUCATION” ISSUE OUT MONDAY!◾️

🟡 Featuring the !

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22/03/2022

EXCERPTS FROM FEBRUARY ISSUE:
x La’Tsiah Jordan
painting x: Carmen Timmons

“Come now as we will see the black man tied to another white tree. The neck and hands are bound but by surprise there is still love and hope within his eyes.
Taking in an array of beatings so the chains will break for the children’s freedom seeking, Bending in and out of the crunch lines in time, Just to see another name appearing between the the cracks
Healing each stripe you have placed upon the backs of the black man for having the strength, gifts, and blood that one lacks as Henrietta’s drips down the open open wounds unbound from the attacks. The groans heard from the accomplishments have paused as they all stare in anguish and astonishment, not knowing they were just leading us to another place of a higher compliments,
But when one life lays drear another name just appears, thinking you have held us back from stripping the lives of innocence from off of our track,
Accused for being black there is nothing sweet to have as a snack as we mourn Emmett, Till the death of Travon Martin’s blood was spilled both teenage boys, Their story’s the same, just a different mission, set at a time difference. The vision was nearly clear, the exhales enchanted the minds capitalizing from white american “fear”
Dress Rehearsals w the original K*K to January 6th dancing through the White House with confederated flags claiming to be another American homage parade, but the power you feel you hold is nothing more than an old tool that does nothing more than distract, Just as upholding cotton instead of education, thank you to Ruby for Bridging the gap.
This flag burns everytime we touch on the fact the country was made upon our black backs. As we are prepared to pick up our cross so that the next ones will have eyes with the light still unlost. Rising in more ways in more days with nothing more than broader shoulders and with a smile on their face. For now we will see the truth behind the words, to speak we have more than dried tears. For the war they have started we have already won for now we just wait for the birth of another black sun.”

18/03/2022

FROM THE FEBRUARY ISSUE:
“My Black History”

“At times I’ve felt at odd with my Blackness. Am I black enough? Can I own this melanin in my skin? The world has reinforced it by grabbing at my curls without my consent. And praising my speech with a tone of surprise. By objectifying my sexiness into a fe**sh and a prize calling me exotic like they would a creature.

At times I’ve felt at war with my own blood. Am I me enough? Can I define my skins identity? Some veins carry a known history. The other don’t know where they come from except to and from the heart. Blackness abandoned me at 12 and I wonder if I’ve been chasing it or running in the other direction this whole time I was raised by Italian women, my teachers.

At times I’ve felt betrayed by our history Is it pure enough? Who recorded it down by scratch? We weren’t cared about enough to get the truth. So let’s make our own about who we are and all the ways we can live.

I am brown eyes, BLACK, Italian American, biracial, curvy, skinny, wife, tangled, sister, artist, on the marley, GROOVING. From chains and from before that greatness.

Two halves don’t always make a whole. Sometimes they make more.

by
photo slide 1 x
photos slide 2 x

15/03/2022

FROM FEBRUARY ISSUE
“Your Body Your Mantle” x

“Who will say the strength of skin
in the flesh, in the body, in the face.
When it was given the strength of color, of race, the essence, the sweat, the heat. Body is home is path labyrinth, it’s escape and encounter of you, and the other.
If love had a place in your body would be the first awakening, because flesh is where love is born, in a clear way to expand there for someone else, for a greater being, for a giant living.
Body is protection, is cloak. It’s like an alter to itself to thank and exhaust what carries you and makes you alive on this land.”

10/03/2022

📞🌞PHOTOGRAPHY SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR APRIL ISSUE!🌕🪄

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08/03/2022

Happiest International Women’s day! Celebrating Women and gender equality every day all day! 🤟🏻🤟🏼🤟🏽🤟🏾🤟🏿

photo of a Woman we love and admire x

07/03/2022

Caroline Ferreira Mota photography -published in our Black History Month issue this year. 💚

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06/03/2022

“Everybody is free,
free to be how you came into the world
to undress for whoever feels like
to generate in you the greatest of fruits
to satiate the desire that probes the flesh.”

FROM OUR FEBRUARY ISSUE
by

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02/03/2022

▫️SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for our April ‘22 issue centering education!

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22/02/2022

happiest 2.22.22 to all ✨
may all of your manifestations come into fruition!

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15/02/2022

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14/02/2022

◾️APRIL SUBMISSIONS OPEN!▪️

Theme: We are centering education for our April 2022 issue. Are you an educator that has an idea or story to tell? Are you a student that has a story to tell about a dance educator?

We accept anonymous submissions-if you need that protection in order to share your story!

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28/01/2022

DANCEGEIST FEBRUARY 2022 ISSUE
releases on February 7th!

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Big thank you to our stunning cover model and all of our contributors. we love you. 🖤

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