Worth pt 2
04/22/19 • 25 min
The second half of a conversation with Christopher Roman. Is it OK to have fear, as a performer, when choosing to push back against the paradigm? Christopher discusses this, describes some politically-charged works by lesser-known choregraphers, and offers suggestions to mobilize as a community, to create work that challenges the "system" as well as the audience to effect change.
The second half of a conversation with Christopher Roman. Is it OK to have fear, as a performer, when choosing to push back against the paradigm? Christopher discusses this, describes some politically-charged works by lesser-known choregraphers, and offers suggestions to mobilize as a community, to create work that challenges the "system" as well as the audience to effect change.
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Worth: Christopher Roman
Episode 1, a conversation with Christopher Roman, pt 1/2.
Christopher Roman is an award-winning professional dancer and choreographer based in Frankfurt, Germany. He has served as Associate Artisitic Director of the Forsythe Company in Frankfurt, Artistic Director of Dance ON in Berlin, and is at the beginning stages of building a SALT Company, a "multi-faceted" resource for dancers. In part one of our conversation, we discuss the worth of a moving body, and what would be required to effect change in the dance world in order for dancers to garner agency over their own bodies and the politics at play in the world of performing arts.
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BodyPolitic - Worth pt 2
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CCWelcome to BodyPolitic, the podcast that explores the intersection between performing arts and political activism. I'm your host Courtney Collado and this is episode two, part two of my conversation with Christopher Roman. In the second part of our conversation, Christopher discusses more deeply the issues surrounding seeing bodies as currency and discusses in depth why some performing artists have fear
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