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A Silver Lining: Coronavirus May Have Made Dance Instagram Into What It Should Have Been All Along

DANCE Posted: April 10, 2020 8:02 am

Theresa Ruth Howard: “In 2018 I wrote an article about how Instagram was changing the value system of the dance world. It took to task the hyper-sexualization of the body’s facility, the fetishism of dance tricks. … Enter COVID-19. … Literally overnight, the exhibitionistic nature of Instagram was sublimated from being mainly a tool of narcissistic self-promotion (to be sure, it still is) into what could be the highest form of itself: a tool for education, nurturing an authentic community.” – Dance Magazine

DANCE Published: 04.09.20

Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 04.09.20

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