Stanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other.

Tagged: Africa, dance, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences

Fifty-two people trudged down a residential street in Prague, wearing feathers and heels, tuxedos, gloves and sequins. A woman walking nearby nudged her husband. "Why can't we ever dress up?" was her implied message.

There was more to it than that, as a keen observer might have guessed, for the women weren't wearing elegant stilettos but durable and slightly worn "character shoes." This was Vintage Dance Week in Prague, and the group was being spirited down the street by Stanford dance historian and choreographer Richard Powers, one of the pioneers in a burgeoning field. More than a burgeoning field, really, vintage dance is almost a cultural earthquake. And thanks to Powers, Stanford is one of its epicenters.

Tagged: dance, history, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences