In 1984, the dance critic Arlene Croce wrote a notoriously scathing review in which she accused the choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch of reducing the art form to a “pornography of pain.” What Croce ...

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species appear to shape-shift as they elongate plumes of feathers, fan their wings, or ...