In the Halloween season, American culture briefly participates in an ancient tradition of making the world of the dead visible to the living: Children dress as skeletons, teens go to horror movies and ...

When does movement spill over from something we recognize as dance as an artistic and social form to something else? Something potentially otherworldly, whether ecstatic or demonic? This workshop ...

This workshop is open to attendees of the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies who sign up during registration. How can we study medieval dance when the object of our study no longer exists ...

Since 2017, the Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara (FOSB), the only one of its kind in the U.S., has been taking listeners on musical voyages around the world. For its next programs, FOSB will be ...

A German painting of the Danse Macabre from the 18th century. Nine women of different social rank from empress to fool dance with the dead. The entire economy of salvation is depicted, from the Fall, ...