Dancer Activism, Where Is It?
Editors Letters || Wednesday, 31 May, 2006
Just reading some of the past letters that have been sent in and I have to say C'MON GUYS!!! Get with it!!!! It is refreshing that Article19 has the balls to REALLY give opinions as it does not happen that often in the dance world. We have often been trained to keep our mouths shut if we are going to question what is performed out there, or taught etc.
But, let us start to take pride in our work again and not just be accustomed to saying 'oh that was lovely' or accepting any old pay rate as dancers. Let's stand up for our art form and say what we like and what we dislike, with our reasons of course.
General slagging off is not healthy but as the philosophers say, questioning is!! So people, reply not with anger but with reasoning and explanation, everyone is entitled to their opinions, dance as an art form should be open to that and should respond. Then perhaps things for dancers could get a bit better and maybe more people would go and see dance instead of watching reality TV.
HP
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