A ball has its own logic.
It moves. It repeats. It escapes. It rolls out of line. It refuses to stay still long enough to become only one thing. We are looking for artists, thinkers, movers, makers, and rule-breakers who want to work with the ball not only as object, but as force, symbol, memory, game, control system, absurdity, repetition, choreography, pressure, play, delay, or drift.
Dance is not only what appears under stage light.
It is also what the body remembers, what time leaves behind, what discipline reshapes, what longing survives, and what life continues to carry long after performance ends.
For this special call, we want to shift the focus.
Away from spectacle alone. Away from applause as the only measure. Away from the finished image of dance as something polished, distant, and complete.
Instead, we want to look again at the dancer as a human being.
At the body behind the performance. At memory, pain, devotion, fatigue, tenderness, contradiction, humor, survival, and daily life. At what remains when the curtain falls, and at what was always there before it rose.
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What this can lead to (when aligned):
Chinese New Year is not just a holiday. It is texture, distance, color, sound, and the kind of memory that returns before you do.
Stories of Chinese Lunar New Year, a special edition that gathers works and writing that reimagine the season through objects, places, and feeling.
Banana Slips
A banana peel often exists only in a fleeting, overlooked moment:consumed, discarded, stepped on. It is a trivial residue, and the starting point of an accident. A loss of bodily balance, a rupture in order, a deviation from an intended path.
Banana Slips takes the banana peel as an entry point to invite artists to attend to things and moments that appear insignificant yet actively intervene in reality:failure, absurdity, embarrassment, risk, misuse, slipping, or subtle disruptions of everyday order.
The banana peel is both object and metaphor, a trace left after consumption, a bodily reaction that precedes rational thought, and a site where systems reveal themselves through minor cracks.
We are interested in how artists misread, magnify, dismantle, or redefine this image, transforming it into works with contemporary relevance and critical depth.
