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When I first started writing about my relationship to dance, I was careful not to call myself a dancer. Or I put “dancer” in quotes. Not a real dancer, I hoped the quotes made clear. I was a person, a ...

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In the strangest way possible, musician Stella Hennen found her doppelganger: She’s a computer-generated actress stirring up ...