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Bajo el eufemismo de "territorio" o "estado libre asociado", Puerto Rico continúa su existencia como una colonia de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica.

Desde las consignas cimarronas del siglo 19*,  pasando por la militancia del partido nacionalista en el siglo 20**, hasta los estatutos y desenlaces a los vericuetos de la ley "Promesa"***, la estructura percusiva en tambor, danza y voz enciende al colectivo a reivindicar su lucha por la soberanía.

* El cimarronaje en Puerto Rico (siglo 19) fue la resistencia de africanxs y taínxs que escapaban a los montes para formar comunidades libres (palenques) desafiando el sistema colonial y la economía esclavista. Rechazoron la esclavitud en búsqueda de libertad, dignidad y la preservación de sus culturas. Accionaron una amenaza económica (pérdida de propiedad) y social (instigación de rebeliones) para los colonos. 

**La Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) es un centro clave para la investigación nacionalista, especialmente a través del…

New Inside Out Artist Conversation with Li Ning

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In this episode of Inside Out, ELSEHERE sits down with Li Ning for a long, unhurried conversation on the body, performance, memory, migration, loss, and the strange ways art returns us to ourselves. Moving between rural childhood, breakdance culture in 1980s China, sculpture training, grief, contemporary dance, nudity, censorship, and the body’s own knowledge, Li Ning reflects on how movement first gave him back his body, then gave him a place to belong.

Why does a person dance?

Li Ning’s answer is not about dreams, passion, or career planning.It is something harsher, and more real:

Sometimes, if you do not dance, you cannot go on living.

In this episode, we speak with Li Ning at length about the body, dance, fatherhood, injury, growing up, desire, death, and art.From a rural childhood in northern China, to the breakdance wave of the 1980s, to contemporary dance and live art, what he offers is not a story of success, but the story of how a person can be interrupted by life again and again, and how the body can keep bringing him back to himself.

Residencies, Workshops, & Fellowships

Center for Craft – 2026 Craft Archive FellowshipFour $5,000 awards will be offered to fellows conducting research on underrepresented craft histories. The fellowship will culminate with a featured article on Hyperallergic and a virtual program hosted by the Center for Craft. Read more on Hyperallergic.Deadline: May 20, 2026 | centerforcraft.org

Oak Spring Garden Foundation - Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts and DesignThe fellowship will be awarded to an early-career craftsperson or designer whose work meaningfully engages with the natural world. It includes a $10,000 grant and a two- to five-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia.Deadline: May 31, 2026 | osgf.org

Provincetown Art Association and Museum - Robert Motherwell & Renate Ponsold FellowshipA one-year, low-residency program that supports scholars conducting original research on the visual art and artists of Outer Cape Cod. Deadline: June 1, 2026 | paam.org

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