I watched the video of the Street Dance Festival in San Paolo, Brazil, April 2011. This to me is how dance should be viewed. In the streets where anyone can see the dance. Not put alone in a black box theatre where only a few lucky souls get to enter. Out in the open, free, to be experienced and understood, a part of our culture. It takes nerve. Especially if you are all alone. As soon as you have one more person it easier. I grew dancing, learning improvisation in Washington Square Park with Cyrus Khambatta and the Phffft dance theatre. We rehearsed out side in the park everyday. Always an audience, always a learning curve. It was fresh.
I loved what was being presented at this festival, smart, thought through work, not just easy work becasue the venue is easy. Easy meaning no production. The art being showed still had high quality value and that I appreciated. Sometimes for me it's easy to not take outside work as seriously for some reason. Creating it and watching it. I want this point of view to shift. It will. Some of the works were set, some seemed improvised, but all seemed of high integrity.
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