DIYdancer

Creating conversations from inside dance - a place for dance criticism and journalism. Listen to our podcast UnSequenced:

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It's here! In the spirit of necessary camaraderie & destigmatizing the conversation around dancer mental health, we teamed up w/ OKAY, LET'S UNPACK THIS to reimagine the fourth issue of our mag in a new audio zine format. Listen to the first chapter: https://t.co/M6smO4ZXBw

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Our podcast is back 🙌 - https://t.co/9w5YsTzgkG

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Clinician & social worker Mario Espinoza shares mental health tools & practices in conversation w/ Leal Zielińska in Chapter 01 of our new audio mag, Issue 04: Vulnerable Resilience, available now. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/uTg4429D5F

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It's an inevitable side effect of the career, but we're learning that it doesn't have to go unspoken.⁠ Listen to Chapters 01-03 here: https://t.co/uTg4429D5F

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In Ch. 01 of our audio mag, Issue 04: Vulnerable Resilience, you'll find dancer & contributor Coco Alvarez-Mena's interviews w/ 5 dancers, each at different stages of their careers, confronting their fears. ⁠Pandemic insecurity, impostor syndrome, even just getting stuck.. (1/2)

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...on some made-up timeline, or function in spaces that weren't built for me, I can find a true path to healing & knowing myself on all levels, that is unobstructed, unconditional, & unlimited."⁠ -Janeill Cooper in Issue 04, Chapter 01. Listen now: https://t.co/uTg441S2e7 (2/2)

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"For so long, my relationship to my body and understanding of myself has been tethered to the craft by way of the convoluted ideologies of the field... as I continue to shed the internalized ideas that my value is determined by how much I produce or my ability to operate... (1/2)

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Chapter 02: Swimming Upstream and Chapter 03: Erase the Stigma are out now! If you haven't listened to Issue 04: Vulnerable Resilience, our audio mag on dancer mental health, check it out here or listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/uTg4429D5F

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We're hitting pause, but not for long.⁠
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UnSequenced S03 will be taking a brief hiatus through July while we focus on a special project in collaboration with @okayletsunpackthis, reimagining the fourth issue of our magazine in audio form.

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"Let me show you how we are all complicit in creating these narratives unless we start to disrupt them."⁠

Autumn Knight discusses her July 2020 livestreamed performances from a residency @thekitchen_nyc with contributor Djassi DaCosta Johnson: https://t.co/MoQiCJ7HtK

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NEW EPISODE: UNSEQUENCED S03 E04

In our latest and most in-depth episode of UnSequenced yet, Autumn Knight discusses her livestreamed performances from a July 2020 residency
@thekitchen_nyc with contrib Djassi DaCosta Johnson. Listen here: https://t.co/zhxSLTEUuI

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"I do think that articulation is a blessing and a curse..."

Autumn Knight is featured in our latest episode of UnSequenced (S03 E04) in an interview with contributor Djassi DaCosta Johnson, coming soon to your ears. Meantime, catch up on the rest of S03: https://t.co/IGTznZJKp0

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...allegations commonplace; as well as offer tools that promote deeper understanding, a shift away from practices that condone abuse and racism, and hope for collective healing. #vulnerableresilience coming to your ears soon, a project in partnership with Okay, Let's Unpack This.

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The tragic news of Liam Scarlett's passing cannot be acknowledged w/o also noting the context of serious and concerning allegations against him.
Expect our upcoming audio zine on dancer mental health to confront many of the systemic issues in dance that have made such... (1/2)

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"I believe that without words, the physicality that is provided on screen is something that you can't often even come close to with dialogue."⁠ @L_Edson on her work 'Ruin,' in #UnSequenced S03 E03. Listen at https://t.co/gLFmlvwZIx.

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You can also visit @ledboise on Patreon to follow along with the film release: https://t.co/GijDzcSNSG.⁠
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This brand new episode of UnSequenced (S03 E03) with @L_Edson @ledboise comes just in time to give us hope in this...um....anniversary month. Listen at https://t.co/gLFmlvwZIx if you want a little stage nostalgia.
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"For me personally, dance is often at its best when it occurs without even the construct of an established movement genre, and when it displays a very thin line between the formal and the pedestrian."⁠
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@sarahelgart's latest Lens on Screendance column: https://t.co/NPP0xVDyQ0

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"So I think for me, there was this constant...we see the space as ruin, we see these individuals ruined, they are without their vocation of expression." ⁠

Watch this space: a new UnSequenced episode is coming in March, featuring Boise-based choreographer Lauren Edson @L_Edson.

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"...There are no elements of Western movement in my dance form...people automatically assume that when you say you’re contemporary, you must do a fusion form, which I don't, because I can’t." Listen to @AnanyaDance's full UnSequenced episode at https://t.co/w6ieJmtMXM.