Tag: The Dance
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Masks and Crutches
Like the crutch used by the dancers in the video, The Dance, we all wear masks. Yet unlike the dancers use of the crutch, free and willing to share, too many of us cling to the mask, hide behind it, make it the one, and only face we show the world. Writers, like all people…
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Inspiration
The Dance, a video that my friend who is a dancer sent me is still churning my unconscious and causing me to reflect upon my own life story. Like most writers I suffer from depression. And not unlike many writers, my childhood was not the idyllic one American culture says we are to have.
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“The Dance,” Courage and Writing
A friend who is also a dancer sent me this video, The Dance. After Tweeting it, I now have to say that the story told in the video is so much like writing. What you see is a woman in her 30’s performing a modern dance routine with a man who has one leg. Surprisingly…