The Place of Dance

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Andrea Olsen. The Place of Dance
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THE PLACE OF DANCE
THE PLACE OF DANCE
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How can dancers bring the dimensionality we know in our bodies to our relationship to place? Contact improvisation, release work, the discipline of Authentic Movement, and many other investigative movement practices have contributed to conscious, skillful bodies and luscious dancing. Yet the dance field on the whole remains separate from the larger discourse about preserving the Earth systems that support our lives. Why? Perhaps it’s because we still don’t think that what we do as dancers has impact. Environmental activists are energized by the immediacy and difficulty of what humans have to do in the face of global environmental challenges, with climate change as a key issue. They also know that the arts are essential to the discourse; scientists can’t change human hearts and actions by statistics alone.
I feel that dance, in particular, has a unique role to play in rehabilitating humans’ relationship with Earth. We need both a cognitive (mental) and an experiential (embodied) understanding to make a change in behavior. Drawing on the depth and detail of our research and experiential knowledge, dancers bring an embodied, integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective to contemporary issues. Are we ready to engage with others in visioning new possibilities?
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