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Through a deep analysis and application of Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology, I discovered that apology is learned. We learn how to apologize through body shame, the media, family/generational trauma, and government/law/policy. This apology is embodied through gestures, movement patterns, and postures, such as bowing the head, hunching the shoulders, and walking around others. Apology causes us to view our bodies as things to be manipulated, discarded, and embarrassed by. After recognizing why we apologize and how it affects our bodies, we can then begin to think of how to remove it. Because the body the site of the problem, it is also the site of the solution. Dance gives us an opportunity to deeply learn our bodies, to cultivate their power, and to heal from their traumas. By being together in community as women, we are able to feel seen and supported as we work through uncharted territory of being free from apology in these bodies. By dancing in ways that allow us to take up space, to be free, to be unapologetic, we use dance as a practice for life. Through transforming ourselves, we begin to transform the world and rewrite the narrative of how we exist in and move through our bodies as women.
The ASU School of Dance presents School of Dance LIVE!, September 7-9, with works by dance faculty, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
The ASU School of Dance presents The Dance Annual, April 15-17, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.
The ASU School of Dance presents Elina's LINEage, September 19-21, with works by Elina Mooney and Cliff Keuter, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
The ASU School of Dance presents Lyric Reflections, November 15-18, with works by dance faculty, undergraduates, graduates, and visiting artists, performed at Galvin Playhouse Theatre.
The ASU School of Dance presents Transition Projects I, February 13-15, with works by dance faculty and undergraduate students, performed at Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents Transition Projects I, February 18-19, with works by dance faculty and undergrad students, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.