Speaking with Your Body: A conversation with dancer Meredith Dincolo and historian Tara Zahra

Portable Gray's Zachary Cahill talks with Dincolo and Zahra about their collaborative project Dance as History, which was inclusive of a co-taught course at the University of Chicago, rehearsals and pop-up performances with professional dancers, and the premiere of Meredith Dincolo's choreographic work and dance performance Body Language, which was performed at the Logan Center for the Arts last fall. Here the pair share with us the rich possibilities that dance has for conveying embodied histories—offering an alternative to text-based historical work—and the striking overlaps they discovered in methodologies of history and dance.