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Are You Still Immersed In The Process? How Content Culture Can Cap The Artist

 It felt so good to move, undulate, and slide into a deep second position to recoil into a contorted contraction. It truly felt like breathing. Surely, I adore codified technique. However, taking a contemporary class last night taught me way more than I bargained for. Get out of your headspace, get out of the mirror, ditch the "content concept" and just dance. I reckon that is my honest thesis. I felt like Jodie (without my Cooper) as I whisked across the floor. Throughout class I thought about the likes and wisdom of dancers like Robert Battle and Matthew Rushing. While dancing, I recalled both of their sentiments that included abandon and connection (to the floor, to the movement, to the work...) while dancing. Truly, I felt that. Suddenly, I am met with a challenge. Maybe it's culture or maybe its Maybeli — nope! It's definitely culture.  For about one minute, I wrestled with walking off of the floor, grabbing my phone, finding a proper angle to record, propping...
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My response to Pointe Magazine



It is irresponsible to express topics in any dance space that have nothing to do with dance. Structurally contrary subjects subtly chip away at the authenticity of the art because it places focus on minimal opinions that direct attention from the beauty of dance as a profession. The more we advocate for irrelevant nuances that happen to make up the dance world (race, men & women, straight/curly hair, sexual preference, different shades of tights, etc), we water down the art. I personally find topics like the ones above, to be very minuscule. 

Ever noticed how discussing everything around the art of dance tends to create other issues? From 2020 until now majority of the dance conversation has been far from relevant foresightedness. In order to sustain and pass the torch of this beloved art, its true foundations must be watered. I know I have said this many times before; the great dance examples that have gone before us did not obsess over things that did not contribute to the success or the furthering of dance. 

The only things that have a true and lasting impact on the world are things of substance. When you run in the opposite direction, moving with every wind of trend and conversation, you eventually lose potency and impact. Now, I can dive into the detriment of irrelevant topics in dance but I lightly addressed this matter a few articles back. Everyone should read it.

May dance bloom against the direction of popular conversation and trends. May the art of dance take its rightful place, growing strong from the tilled placed of its late greats and the ones still standing. 









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