In this episode, Colleen Bartley talks with Julia Pond about non-active activism, crip time, body time, disability and dance, Quaker meetings and more. The conversation meanders and associates widely between topics, circling around themes of being vs doing, spaciousness and productivity culture.

Bios
Colleen Bartley has a Dance and Education degree from Swarthmore College and a diploma in Community Dance from Laban with years of experience with Somatic Education. She has been a regular at ID since 1999.

She has worked directly with most of the founders of Contact Improvisation and been influenced by teachers of contemporary and post-modern dance, experiential anatomy with Gary Carter and Caryn McHose, Authentic Movement with Susan Schell, Improvisation & Composition (Tuning Scores with Lisa Nelson, The Underscore with Nancy Stark Smith, Ensemble Thinking with Nina Martin, Relational Intelligence with Nita Little) and is very active in dancing, organizing, writing about and documenting dance.

Colleen has an invisible disability which informs her practice as a teacher and an artist. She believes that it's everyone’s birthright to move, that people are inherently creative, movement is our first language, and sees dance as a way to empower people, to effect social change and to build community.

Learn More:
https://contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/newsletter/view/on-being-an-introvert-neuro-diversity-and-contact-improvisation#$

Mentioned in the conversation:
- Young Blood Initiative: https://youngbloodinitiative.com/Wake-Up-Smell-the-Tear-Gas-Agenda
- Bettina Fung: https://www.bettinafung.com/
- Petra Kuppers: https://petrakuppersfiction.wordpress.com/about/
- Long Table (Lois Weaver) http://www.split-britches.com/long-table
- Simon Whitehead
- Chisenhale Art Space