Criticism
The Beauty of Dance by Malik Wilson
October 2026
Art's most ethereal, loose, evanescent and evasive form, dance celebrates, mourns, forms indissoluble patterns, lists along in multiple ways, signifies. In established cultures, it can also serve as a wayfarer, weather vane, canary in the coal mine, symptom. In our modern, disaffected age, dance spreads 'virally' but seems to have little rooted basis, just as we are. In The Beauty of Dance, Malik Wilson takes a pastiche-assemblage approach, recording instances of departure and consolation, and in haunting, ghostlike forms, imagines a new requiem for the body in motion.