The power of dancers: The body, too, is a weapon: The Broad Street Review

The Broad Street Review, Jan 27, 2009

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Dance offers the magical ability to lift us away from our lives and help us forget, if only for a moment, that we are dying. With so many people in danger, art is probably the only cure for a suffering world. I understand that physical safety is a privilege, and that making a living using my body as a vehicle of truth is an even greater privilege. It’s a gift to move at my fullest potential on a daily basis, and explain my views on the world via physical communication. My body is a weapon.  I use my life’s force as ammunition. An army of dance artists, united, wields the power to take that Risk of Flight, to fall and leap, to kick and spin and fly until this war is done.