Call for Nominations – Leslie Scott Zanovitch Trailblazer Award 2026

Dance is an embodied practice – the dancer can’t be separated from the dance. Dance is also communal. For instance, the cipher structure of hip hop where dancers move in and out of the cipher (circle) surrounded by onlookers in a call-and-response practice. This structural interdependence tethers dancers to their community of practice. If exposure to hypersexualized music, costumes, or choreography occurs […]