Get the Point! Dance Podcast

Activate! Dance Activism is not a luxury it is a necessity!

In episode 7 Kandice will break down her STAND principle a guide to help you get started.

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Quote:
One thing is more frightening than speaking your truth and that is not speaking.
                                                                                            -Audre Lorde
                                                                                                   

A full and rich conversation about Dance, Community and Honor.

BIO
Ama Ma'at Gora is a Philly based dance artist, educator and choreographer. She received her BA in dance from Georgian Court University and her MFA from Temple University. She has had opportunities to work with choreographers such as Kariamu Welsh, Lela Aisha Jones, Earl Mosley, Sidra Bell and more. She now serves as Community Based Learning Coordinator at Drexel University where she oversees artistic civic engagement. She is a 2020 Transformation Grant Awardee with the Leeway Foundation and a Lindy Center Fellow for Civic engagement at Drexel University. Her hopes are to continue to engage the community with liberatory practices that are shared best through movement and storytelling.

Action Steps
Ama gives us real world focuses to implement into our dance spaces. She leads our movement exploration with a self care component.

Connect with Ama Gora
Website: https://www.maatworksdancecollective.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maatworks/  @maatworks


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3. NEW! Tea Talk Thursdays on IG Live @ 4pm. Grab a mug and your favorite tea bag.

Quote:
You are no seedling. More like a bright star, the calming winds over water. A wave of black holes that can only lead you further to yourself. You're cosmic and earth bound unafraid of time or change. You're everlasting. The popping embers in a quiet fire- alive, alive, alive.
                                                                                                                   -Ama Gora

Strike a Match🔥

Let's reignite your inner flame. We Must find the strength inside of us to stay Motivated.

In episode 5 Kandice will give you tangible steps that will encourage and have you ready to hit the ground running.

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Quotes:
Go within everyday and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.     - Katherine Dunham

Life is like a CAMERA just FOCUS on what's important. CAPTURE the good times. Develop from the negative. If things don't work out . Take another SHOT!
- Ziad K. Abdelnour

                                                                                                       

Jasmine Carter ( Snazzy Jazzy) a NJ based performance artist walks us through using painting and dancing  together as a healing experience through abstract art.

She gives us key questions to think about that prompts our movement exploration.

Find Jasmine Carter
Website: http://www.snazzyjazzy.net
Instagram: http://instagram.com/snazzyjazz @snazzyjazz
Youtube: https://youtu.be/DTeAKdtiKEo.     Snazzy Jazzy Butterfly

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Quote:
Exuding freedom through movement using abstract art to touch your soul.
                                                                                                                   -Jasmine Carter

Emergency! Emergency! Crisis: National, Local or School Community/ studio!

Where do we as dance educators go from here?
Have you ever felt like your students needed to process? Needed to express themselves verbally and physically? Maybe you didn't know where to start or how to apply it in your dance classes.

In this episode  you will be given a principle with 3  actionable items you can implement immediately. that will give you the frame work to start the conversation.

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"To Share Our Humanity Is What We're Here For" Judith Jamerson

The root to Representation & Culturally Responsive teaching can be implemented with the understanding of one foundational principle.

This will set the ground work for you to build upon in your dance classes. Looking through the lens of dance however this principle can be applied in every subject or life in general.

In Episode 2 Kandice will layout a blueprint to build upon immediately and give you inspiration through quotes and movement exploration.

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Dance is circular its give and receive rooted in the people. -Kandice N. Point-Du-Jour

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. - Alvin Ailey

Does your body hold the matters of your heart? Are you in-tuned with how your body responds? How do you process the events over the last year through movement?

I recently had a weight lifted off of me that I didn't know was there. How long was I holding on to it and how did it effect me

How can you as an artists, educator or dancer explore this for yourself and lead others?

In this 1st episode you will take a journey of self introspection and given inspiration to start the process.  This process is easily duplicated and can be used in your classroom or for self exploration. Four steps will be given that you can implement immediately!

Q: Do you need to be a dancer to take this journey.
A:  Not at all
Just hit play and join in!

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"From the Heart the Body Speaks" Kandice N. Point-Du-Jour

"Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It's the scream which frustration common to all human or color, are 'invisible'. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice." -Pearl Primus

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