Dancing with Refugees - Expressing Feelings and Experiences
Goethe Institut
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“Through dance, I can express experiences that I would not be able to verbalize in any other way. The possibility of using dance to say something about oneself, one’s own feelings and views is not to be found in traditional dance, which was what I learnt first. Rather, it is contemporary dance that makes that possible.”
“But in the workshops I feel it is important to start with tradition in order to show the participants that dance has something to do with them. It is part of their culture and can also become a means through which they can express themselves.”
“Dancing together brings them into the present, it creates a specific moment. That may be the starting point for actively shaping the future. Through reviving the culture the refugees feel they have lost, we lead them to a new way of dealing with it. It is as if we were opening up the possibility of a retrospective view, but one that focuses on what was beautiful and not on the suffering.”
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“Through dance, I can express experiences that I would not be able to verbalize in any other way. The possibility of using dance to say something about oneself, one’s own feelings and views is not to be found in traditional dance, which was what I learnt first. Rather, it is contemporary dance that makes that possible.” · “But in the workshops I feel it is important to start with tradition in order to show the participants that dance has something to do with them. It is part of their culture and can also become a means through which they can express themselves.” · “Dancing together brings them into the present, it creates a specific moment. That may be the starting point for actively shaping the future. Through reviving the culture the refugees feel they have lost, we lead them to a new way of dealing with it. It is as if we were opening up the possibility of a retrospective view, but one that focuses on what was beautiful and not on the suffering.”
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https://www.goethe.de/en/m/kul/tut/gen/tan/20710799.html
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- “Through dance, I can express experiences that I would not be able to verbalize in any other way. The possibility of using dance to say something about oneself, one’s own feelings and views is not to be found in traditional dance, which was what I learnt first. Rather, it is contemporary dance that makes that possible.”
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- “But in the workshops I feel it is important to start with tradition in order to show the participants that dance has something to do with them. It is part of their culture and can also become a means through which they can express themselves.”
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- “Dancing together brings them into the present, it creates a specific moment. That may be the starting point for actively shaping the future. Through reviving the culture the refugees feel they have lost, we lead them to a new way of dealing with it. It is as if we were opening up the possibility of a retrospective view, but one that focuses on what was beautiful and not on the suffering.”
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https://www.goethe.de/en/m/kul/tut/gen/tan/20710799.html
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