The News Review:
- Police break up charity dance
- 123 Party dancers elicit smiles and a brush with the law – The…
- Disabled dancers surmount stigmas
- Male Belly Dancing
Police break up charity dance
Times nline – Feb 24, 2007
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123 Party dancers elicit smiles and a brush with the law – The…
Boston Globe – Feb 24, 2007
They held auditions at Embassy nightclub on Lansdowne Street and selected Seligson and Wight as their successors. 123 Party is much more than a publicity stunt said Perlman. Making people smile point and laugh or even dance a little on their lunch break — that’s what he finds rewarding. “The dance creates happiness and happiness in turn creates cooperation and cooperation breeds harmony and harmony is what makes this world function at its optimum caliber” he said. Wight said he dances with 123 Party as much for the cardiovascular workout as for “challenging people’s level of comfort” as he puts it. “The exercise is awesome” he said. “It is unbelievably good exercise.
Disabled dancers surmount stigmas
Independent nline – Feb 24, 2007
So two years ago when dongo heard that Dance Meets Differences by the German DIN A 13 dance company was in Nairobi to find disabled dancers for a mixed-ability dance project he took a chance and auditioned. “They showed us this video of disabled people dancing and I thought that if they can do it I can do it too” he recalls. Gustavo Fijalkow the production director of the DIN A 13 dance company says mixed-ability dance aims to break taboos. “People with physical disabilities are left on the road to die. But there has been a lot of praise for these dancers and that’s what we wanted – to create a movement. dongo who is in Johannesburg for the FNB Dance Umbrella dreams of creating his own dance company for disabled Kenyans. “They will show the world what disabled people can do.
Male Belly Dancing
Buzzle – Feb 24, 2007
to say that men shouldnt dance would mean that men should not have the right to express either of these two qualities which in essence is absurd! the entanglement of bellydance and sexually has further increased the notion that belly dance is a female art as many people have preconcieved notions that Bellydance is actually a eroticly exotic dance performed by females not a classy performance of emotion. ”In the future Jamil would like to have his own studio where he can ”teach dance to both men and women and break down social conceptions of what the dance is and ‘should’ be. to an expression of spirit. ”Maybe you’d like to change your conceptions too.