‘Confusing and weird as heck’: What Oli Mathiesen loves about contemporary dance
The award-winning queer choreographer and dancer thinks we should lend his art form the same lens that we give orchestral music and abstract paintings.
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‘Confusing and weird as heck’: What Oli Mathiesen loves about contemporary dance
The award-winning queer choreographer and dancer thinks we should lend his art form the same lens that we give orchestral music and abstract paintings. -
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Indie venues to receive $100,000 of tech, plus the week’s arts news
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Grace Iwashita-Taylor, the poet who never wants to stop becoming
Since she started writing in her teens, her work has shapeshifted from lyrics, to poetry, spoken word, scripts, and videos.
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