https://www.rennie-mcdougall.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59388bd51b631b589a64919b/1767220865485-7ASQN22VZMGWFU5P7NJT/RENNIE_JJW_3.jpg About Rennie McDougall is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has appeared in T Magazine, The Village Voice, Lapham's Quarterly, frieze.com,The Brooklyn Rail, Slate, The Observer (UK), The Monthly (Aus), and The Lifted Brow (Aus), among others. He received an Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism in 2018 and was named a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for non-fiction literature in 2023. His first book, Nonstop Bodies, will be published in 2026. Rennie has also worked as a contemporary dancer, performing extensively in Australia and New York with choreographers including Phillip Adams, Lucy Guerin, Stephanie Lake, Juliana May, Wally Cardona, and Luke George. His own choreography has been presented by Next Wave festival, Melbourne Fringe, and Sydney Fringe. contact: renniemcd [at] gmail [dot] com https://www.rennie-mcdougall.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://www.rennie-mcdougall.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59388bd51b631b589a64919b/f5c903eb-557b-461e-baf3-22f0504223da/Nonstop+Bodies+Cover+Image+with+Background.jpg NONSTOP BODIES - Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City May 5, 2026 A sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From the exuberant endurance of dance marathons during Prohibition to the militant precision of the Rockettes through WWII and the strait-laced fifties; from the aloof abstraction of the Judson Dance Theater to the explosive energy of hip hop in the South Bronx; from the elated mingling of discos to the commercialized physicality of Broadway, dance was both a reflection of culture and a backbone for social change. In charting the stories and interconnected histories of these different dances, Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City reveals how each was fundamentally shaped by the social and historical forces of the time, as movements rumbling through the rest of the country came to a head in the singular density and diversity of New York City.