What if Dance Could Save the World? by Gia Kourlas

[Buddy]

"What if Dance Could Save the World?"

I'd like to leave it right there for the moment.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/arts/dance/dance-in-2023-the-cool-genre.html

 

Edited February 15 by Buddy

[Buddy]

“ “Maybe dance can save the world.” Maybe it’s not maybe. Maybe, under the radar, dance has already been changing the world in unassuming ways — in a street jazz class at a gym or the line dancing in the back of a Ukrainian restaurant, where movement is seen and shared through the bodies and minds of everyday dancers.

“At this moment when dance is everywhere, it’s time to give it deeper attention, to move beyond the ballet-centric surface of it all. Dance isn’t separate from life; movement is a part of life, after all. There is an urgent need not just for spreading the gospel of dance, but for recognizing it, because within its wild wingspan the art form is also this:

**** We all have a body, a body that needs to dance.****

“As the choreographer Twyla Tharp has said: “Dance is simply the refinement of human movement — walking, running and jumping. We are all experts….” ”

I don’t necessarily follow all the ins and outs of what Gia Kourlas has written, but the above, for me, is certainly worth considering.

Edited February 15 by Buddy

[Buddy]

And maybe we can go in a room, turn on some music (or enjoy the quiet) and dance. It’ll probably make us feel good, or even better, perhaps make us do something good.