“dance as a form of survival”: Dance for Tolerance
Thanks to a tip from Sculplady, I got to read this very interesting article about a New York Dance group “proving that dance might just be the ideal medium for intercultural dialogue and positive social change.”:
“Dance For Tolerance began as a gesture in the mind and heart of Marco Stoffel, the visionary founder and president of the Third Millennium Foundation, and it has exploded into a dance symphony. While in Cali, Colombia, in April 2006, he visited the remarkable Francisco Esperanza Dance Troupe, a community-based company that reaches out to disadvantaged youth through dance. Amazed, he challenged them to create a new piece that would not only represent the concept of “intolerance,” but also illuminate ways to overcome it.”
Whole article is here; I think it’s a great “next step” beyond things like dance therapy. It’s about time we started moving past the Cartesian dichotomy of Mind/Body and recognize that some of the answers we need come from deeper places than our forebrain.
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