{"id":342,"date":"2003-07-22T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2003\/07\/reintegrating_our_organization\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T19:27:12","slug":"reintegrating_our_organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/reintegrating_our_organization.php","title":{"rendered":"Reintegrating our organizations and ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choreographer\/dancer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceexchange.org\/\">Liz Lerman<\/a> has always provided a broad and engaging perspective at any professional conference I&#8217;ve seen her present. A friend (thanks Becky) recently forwarded this 2001 keynote address she gave to a performing arts educators forum (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.symphony.org\/news\/edu\/keynote.pdf\">available as an Adobe Acrobat file here<\/a>). I&#8217;ll just let it speak for itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>I think there was a time when people danced and the crops grew. I think they danced as a way to heal their children. I think they danced as a way to prepare for war\ufffdwe know that because we know some of those dances. I think they danced when they had to examine complex questions that they couldn&#8217;t answer any other way. I think that dance was a way to address the mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>When I think about that time, I like to ask this question. Who got the best parts? If it is so important for the crops to grow and the rain to fall, whom did they trust? I think maybe they trusted the fattest person, the person with the most weight. You would think so\ufffdit would make sense. Or the oldest person, the person with the most wisdom. I&#8217;d like to imagine that they had a set of values in place that led them to understand why a particular person was dancing before them. And I&#8217;d like to think that everyone understood the dance. They didn&#8217;t have to read about it in the paper the next day and have it explained to them. And I don&#8217;t think it was because it was simple dance. I think that the dancing was highly abstract. There was no dumbing down in those cultures. The reason everyone understood the dance was because they all knew the dance.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest, it&#8217;s well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choreographer\/dancer Liz Lerman has always provided a broad and engaging perspective at any professional conference I&#8217;ve seen her present. A friend (thanks Becky) recently forwarded this 2001 keynote address she gave to a performing arts educators forum (available as an Adobe Acrobat file here). I&#8217;ll just let it speak for itself: I think there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}