According to Assistant Professor of Dance Amy Swanson, the contemporary Senegalese dance scene has become a liminal space in which artists can explore expressions of gender and sexuality that are at odds with social norms — as long as they deny they’re doing any such thing.
Ten times in the past decade, Associate Professor Mike Loranty has flown to a remote research station in the Siberian settlement of Cherskiy to observe the Cajander larch firsthand.