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Holding on my feminist values in the dance industry. A personal view from a dancer
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Holding on my feminist values in the dance industry. A personal view from a dancer

Jaslyn Reader

Conflating ideas on sexuality and dance is an important, albeit conflicting, issue for any female/professional dancer nowadays; especially in today’s social and political climate and, amidst a profession spent glorifying and often essentialising the human body. As a female and as a dancer, the ever-present reality of displaying sexuality is a constant phenomenon, either in the direction or expectations of others, or the image we believe we are expected to portray.

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Van Legakis, Unity Space and this summer’s “Interdisciplinary Festival of Embodiment” East Point West

Maddy Wright

The festival truly is interdisciplinary in that classes involving painting, dance on film and massage are also offered in the program schedule. Separated into performance workshops, and elective classes, participants are given the freedom to build their own experience by selecting from the diverse line-up of guests. Each artist in the performance project series will be sharing their individually developed processes: Anton Lachky with Puzzle Work, Edivaldo Ernesto with Depth Movement, Judith Sanchez Ruiz with Your Own God, Inaki Azpillaga with Powerful and Fragile and finally Vangelis Legakis with Embodied Unity.

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A Dancing Journey at Kibbutz Summer Intensive: A Life-Changing Experience for a Dancer
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A Dancing Journey at Kibbutz Summer Intensive: A Life-Changing Experience for a Dancer

Lucie Le May

For those who are concerned about keeping on training and developing during the summer break, I would suggest joining Kibbutz Summer Intensive.  For the others who, like me, aren’t really into summer workshops and would rather go and refresh their minds in a beautiful corner of the world, I would still recommend it.  Eclectic and international, Kibbutz Summer Intensive takes place in Kibbutz Ga’aton, Israel. It is a very unique place, full of history, which I think would be worth visiting for every dancer and dance student. More than training, the Kibbutz Summer Intensive offers a special journey about dance.

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Why MIP® 2018 Will Play an Integral Role in Your Professional Dance Education
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Why MIP® 2018 Will Play an Integral Role in Your Professional Dance Education

Maddy Wright

At MIP® there is no other motive than to grow. There is no contract, scholarship or award to win at the end of the program. Instead, it’s the experience and what’s learned from that experience that’s earned. Nowadays more programs have emerged attempting to emulate something similar, which proves the program’s originality and innovativeness, but MIP® continues to keep its ear to the ground and listen to needs and changes of our ever-evolving community.

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A Call to Sustain Freelance Performance Artists
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A Call to Sustain Freelance Performance Artists

Dalton Alexander

If we want any sort of live performance art that values the work more than making money, that invites conversation without having to pay for it, there must be another way to allow us artists to live, to make, to collaborate, to attend performances, to fuel conversations, to create change. What we need is time. What we need is sustainability.

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