Dance – Strangers Guide

Spain

The Keepers of Flamenco

How a Roma tradition became one of Spain's most famous exports

by Christina Zanfagna with Anya de Marie

Flamenco shoes of all colors lined the walls of the Gallardo store like rows of candy....

United States

“Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon” is one of many images Seattle photographer Edward S. Curtis captured between 1899 and 1929, documenting Native Americans...

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United States

Until 1996, dancing was banned at the world’s largest Baptist college, Baylor University. When President Robert Sloan Jr. lifted the ban, he warned students...

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Middle East

“The Syrian cabaret-hostess, whose hair is bound back by a Grecian headband, whose quivering thighs sway to the rhythm of castanets, dances, intoxicated, voluptuous,...

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China

“We left the old dance studio and went to Teacher Xiao’s little apartment in the academy...”

Readings

Moscow

Russia’s Big Ballet: A Drama in Three Acts

Crime and intrigue in the Bolshoi was as dark as any performance

by Stranger’s Guide

PROLOGUE Ballet has long been one of Russia’s national treasures, and the Bolshoi, Russian for “big,”...

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