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Interested in contributing an article to the upcoming print edition of Black Dance Magazine?

Summer 2025 Edition Theme:
Unburdened and Unbothered: Black Dance Continues to Thrive in the Midst of Chaos

Review our Editorial Sections below, and submit a pitch form today! Contact us at blackdancemag@gmail.com for more information.

Editorial Sections

1) Cover story

2) Feature story

3) Body Basics: Nutrition/Injury Prevention/My Personal Dance Story

4) Spotlight: Upcoming Shows/Upcoming and Promising Dancers/New Choreographers and Dance Innovators

5) Columns (regular contributing opportunities for our print and digital issues)

6) Business

7) BDM Fashion: Fashion/Beauty/BDM Favs (product reviews)/Costume and Makeup Tips

8) Dance in Higher Ed: Highlights a Dance program, Dance trend in higher education/Other Related Issues

9) BDM Media: Features books, music and media for and promoting Black Dance

10) What’s trending?

11) Hot Topics

12) Liturgical

13) Reviews

14) History

15) In Memorium

DIASPORA - CHARLOTTE, NC: Long Memories/Moving Spirits (Review)

Photo by BT Twitty.

By A’Keitha Carey

Long MEmories is a multimedia, interdisciplinary interactive experience, inclusive of dance, music, and spoken word—storytelling at its finest. It is multi and intergenerational project that digs into traditional African, African American, and Afro Diasporic cultures, fusing language, dance genres, and aesthetics to create a work of art that pays homage to the evolution of Blackness and its roots in African spirituality and the Black church. Read more.