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c | J issue #1 : questions & topics

What does making dances mean to you? I was having a conversation with a colleague about how people often think an artist must KNOW what his/her work means. For choreographers and dancers we must KNOW what the dance means, what it’s communicating to its audience, its singular meaning, its reason to be.  

Rather than ask what your dance means or what a collection of dances means for you, c | J asks:

| What does dance-making as an endeavor mean to you? Why do you do it?

| Why do we all do it when we could be saving the world?

| Does it matter to you?

| What does it mean in terms of your life, your day, how you wake up in the morning, how you look at things?

| What is your relationship to making dances?