... of Islamic Shariah law throughout the Malakand region where Swat is located. Nagina recalls an all but immediate reaction when the broadcasts began. “Bomb attacks were started on music shops. Singing and dancing was banned, and we stopped attending parties due to fear of retaliation from Fazlullah’s...

... and dance talent contests for the transgender community. And, following a series of performance-based competitions, a “Miss Koovagam” is crowned in a place where South Asia’s historically validated ideals of gender and sexual ambiguity stand in stark contrast to the current plight of the transgender...

... shawarma and bland pizza served beneath overhead fans transforms into an ad hoc dance club, loud and sweaty, with a DJ in an elevated booth mixing the Hot 100 with a dash of Trace Africa’s Top 10. On one of these nights not long ago, a Liberian woman in her early 20s named Fatu headed out to Sajj...

... SPECTRUM FOR ALL-NIGHT DANCE PARTIES A new and troubled chapter began in 1988, when the acid house phenomenon hit British youth culture. Acid house—which, by the early 1990s, was known as the rave scene—caused a seismic shift by bringing electronic dance music to the forefront of pop, and triggering...

... in Manhattan became a Los Munequitos were an important part site of pilgrimage, where New York’s most of that opening. Founded in 1952 in their respected Latin musicians came by to hang. home town of Matanzas, they are a music Some people suspended their daily lives to and dance troupe whose...

... and culture—which would be placed in even greater jeopardy should mass emigration prove necessary. Several times each week, ancestral dances and other events celebrating the islands’ uniqueness are held at the park in the center of Bairiki, opposite the national library, which contains the archives...

... of fashion models. In Quito, the wealthy stay north of their watchful Virgin. In Quito, the wealthy stay north of their watchful Virgin. Three days of Carnival festivities have led now to the climax—a school-wide dance where the princess will be named. At this grand finale, each class...

... that forces used by the terrorists in their macabre sparked the First World War, it is fair to dance of death and destruction. The terror­ suggest that, in the impact it is likely to ists crossed frontiers easily, coordinated have on the shape of the decades to follow, their efforts with technological...

... of the country’s 26 public universities. They sang. They chanted. They danced. And when the wait for a reply to their demands went on for too long, some revolted. In response, police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. It all seemed so surreptitious and fast-catching that various...

... searching for the one, that’s when we met each other,” Hisham told me. “I first met her on Twitter, then later in person. Wanting nothing but fun, she told me off . . . I met her again at an ice cream shop. She charmed me with her happy ice cream dance.” Raneen and Hisham, who pose American Gothic-style...

... in Berlin hasn’t been eradicated—but rather displaced. The dance clubs, for example, that once lay on the fringes of Potsdamer Platz, the very center of Berlin, journeyed east several miles in the aughts to the banks of the Spree between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. While the techno clubs aren’t...

..., very few hip-hop artists in the media or in cultural events.” Yet the presence of hip-hop has existed in the shadows for decades, at least in Tunisia, says Mekki. “In the early 1990s, there was a TV show treating social problems facing youth. One of the main characters did break dancing and popping...

... at during anti-government protests in Caracas in March 2014. his feet. “We made him dance,” he told me. When I don’t chuckle in response, he said, in a moment of sincerity, that he blamed his par- ents...

... tunes as and walk to the first landing where a large couples danced: historical fiction, gorged on window looks out over a pale yellow court­ new freedom and a Hollywood budget. Per­ yard. A rusted Russian-built Lada from the haps it was the strong homebrewed beer, 1980s sits in a puddle...

...Courtney Brooks Susan Astray Sukhumi, Abkhazia—Angie loves traveling, dancing, and peach juice. She doesn’t like boundaries. That’s because this young human rights worker is from Abkhazia, a self-declared independent territory claimed by Georgia. The 26-year-old, who works...

.... Worshippers sing and dance at a Sunday service at Watoto, an English-speaking Pentecostal...

... Protector stands near the Dakota Access Pipeline. Oceti Sakowin Camp, North Dakota. November 2016. see the gathering at Standing Rock as the beginning of a new chapter for humanity, a dance between the modern and the ancestral. From August 2016 to February 2017 I lived...

... dancers for prime roles in top productions, dance company. were all part of a toxic mix. The attack on Filin surrounded himself with loyal- Filin came after a long saga of ego clashes ists, and rewarded these lesser dancers with and dysfunction. lead parts...

... in his “own” ceptionally long, chill winter, nor a perva­ country. And, having neither the boundless sive sense of foreboding about what the energy nor the dancing ability of a Gene month of May might bring. Kelly, intoxicated enough with the pleasures On May 29, the French...