Messa da Requiem, Hamlet & Little Red Riding Hood as ballets— oh my ❤️ www.danceaustralia.com.au/news/queensl...

Florie—& I mean this, honey—I hope you never reached the interior of the planet Earth, never discovered uranium, rubies, & Unspoiled Monsters. With all my heart, what there is of it, I hope you moved to the country and lived there happily ever after. ~Truman Capote open.spotify.com/episode/4x93...

"We loved her for her ambivalence about performing, how she wanted to be seen even as she ran from it, hiding her face under the brim of a hat, or behind tinted glasses, or in the arms of one of her onscreen lovers" www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

“For Holly, being half Kurdish and growing up in the United States without having traveled to Kurdistan or being fluent in Kurdish sometimes evokes sadness for what she feels she is missing.” kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/4191

Beautiful handmade jewellery back home in Aotearoa ✨ newzealandandmaoriart.com/jade-valour/...

I’m intetested in myths because theyre full of extraordinary lies that make people unfree~ Angela Carter open.spotify.com/episode/1GSH...

A new mini essay with poem on a ballerina & the “beauty myth” 🩰🤍

Beautiful reflections on grace of body & mind, & discovering empathy for roles, by Alina Cojocaru open.spotify.com/episode/3e6G...

“I wonder if this sort of monolithic collective conscience will just get further and further retranslated into a lowest-common-denominator set of words and principles that lack nuance or complexity.” spikeartmagazine.com/articles/use...

It’s spooky season 👻 Nos Calan Gaeaf @reviewwales.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6T9F...

while our daughter calls to remind us to take pictures of things she can draw—a sprig of rose hips, a clump of serviceberries. A deer she nicknamed Chewy. Bellies full of chowder, we almost forget one of us is dying. ~Martha Silano www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The migrant’s experience permeates all aspects of these paintings. Kahraman fixates on her subjects’ eyes — they are often left blank or depicted in the figures’ palms, like the hand of Fatima… said to ward off bad fortune. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

open.substack.com/pub/elifshaf... 🕊️

A new essay/poem on nymphs & ballerinas open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...

Adoring this first person essay series… this one, Lisa Carver visits The Moulin Rouge in 1980s open.spotify.com/episode/2AC8...

A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion … True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our heart. 🤍 www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/26/j...

When I got to Cambridge University, they told me you can’t be a good scientist and have empathy for your subjects. Fortunately, I had a wonderful teacher that taught me those scientists were absolutely wrong. ~ Jane Goodall 🦋🤍 www.vogue.co.uk/article/jane...

Big news 🐻🥰 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

But if you knew her, you came to recognize that sudden, rooted attention. ~ Ninette de Valois (on Margot Fonteyn) Attention is the beginning of devotion ~ Mary Oliver 🤍

Quite the title but interesting— sauna/ cold plunge & performance www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/s...

Welsh folklore tells us to take care tonight: "Michaelmas Day was credited with uncanny power in Wales. There was an old superstition that on this night the Cistfaens (warriors' graves) were illuminated by spectral lights for the ghosts of ancient warmen were engaged in deadly fray."

Kahraman saw the flames... & felt instantly transported to the past. She suddenly found herself in her childhood bedroom in Baghdad, where she had watched air raids falling from the sky. “I was 10 years old,” Kahraman recalls, the same age that her daughter is now. www.wmagazine.com/culture/hayv...

I was a photo innocent… until about twenty years ago. ~ Sally Mann open.spotify.com/episode/4tH0...

Mon dieu www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Beautiful conversations with Asian/& artists 🤍 thehereandthere.co/artist/chang...

A new substack essay & poem open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...

A gorgeous interview with site-specific choreographer, Zoë Bastin, who shares my love for cold-water swimming 🌊 spotlight.adancemag.com/the-break-zo...

The two handles, one of which is going to lay us in for spilling the bucket, or straining our back, or not being able to handle the thing that we’re carrying around. The other, a handle by which we actually can bear it… even flourish and have a good life. medium.com/practical-ra...

It was wonderful to interview Jo Lloyd on the importance of explorative methods in choreography recently for Fjord Review 🤍 fjordreview.com/blogs/all/th...

EWF x Textile Message at No Vacancy gallery, Naarm. Thanks @emergingwriters.bsky.social for everything ✨

For Schopenhauer, all moral actions can be expressed by the Latin phrase Neminem laede, imo omnes quantum potes, juva (“Injure no one; on the contrary, help everyone as much as you can”) philosophynow.org/issues/52/Sc...

LISTEN WHEN YOUR BODY TALKS

New musings, & a poem, on my substack: open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...

A stunning night exploring fashion, memory & poetry, with @piecedwork.bsky.social for @emergingwriters.bsky.social 🩷

Max Dupain & Man Ray at Heide Moma. A beautifully curated photography dreamscape 🤍

Most dancers, I think it's fair to say, aren't big readers, but Rudolf Nureyev was an exception. An insomniac, who spent much of his life on planes, he was nearly as voracious in his reading as he was in his two major passions: dance & sex ~ Julie Kavanagh www.theguardian.com/books/2007/s...

For those of us who grew up familiar with her work, Della’s legacy extends beyond fabric; it lies in what she has made possible. She has demonstrated that clothing can embody history, defiance, and pride all at once. 🌞 www.thejiyanarchives.com/herbiji/dell...

This database cool is seriously the coolest thing. When I read “every fire you tend” and “the last pomegranate tree” I thought — I’d really like to learn more about Kurdish literature — and now!!

Any story that explores beauty is also an exploration of death ~ Mona Awad, on beauty myths & fairy tales open.spotify.com/episode/5EZJ...

Do I wish receptivity was more available? Maybe. And maybe it feels so good because it interrupts the other parts of life. What are “the other parts of life”? The parts where you are anywhere but in the moment. ~ Laurie Stone www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...

A new essay on freedom (& Rudi in 1960s Parisian Springtime) 🌸 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...

The beauty of cinema is that you’re basically walking into Plato’s Cave. ~ Jim Jarmusch www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

“Bourdain freely acknowledged that part of the reason he continued to work at such a frantic pace might have been a fear about where his mind might go if he ever sat still,” Patrick Radden Keefe wrote, in 2018.

let me be tender: mother of chamomile, champion of lavender, whorl and corolla of a daughter’s laughter. Let me be tender, a gentle evictor of what scoffs basil at night, reduces to skeleton anyone’s freedom. ~ @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social plumwoodmountain.com/poem/tender/

It was so loveiy to interview Benjamin Hurley & Scott Elsterman for this feature on their new collaboration for Dancehouse, Melbourne Australia 🤍 spotlight.adancemag.com/scenarios-be...

Join us on Zoom August 30th from 2pm to 3:30pm EDT for Sleeping in the Courtyard live reading, from Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/ArUEqXotVm8k...