arrozconhalib.bsky.social
Palestinian 🇵🇸Armenian 🇦🇲 Fronteriza. Dance maker, dance educator, tatreez enthusiast, amateur baker. From 🇵🇸 to 🇲🇽 all the walls have got to go.
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No, that’s Grimes’ oldest. The child as party to this hearing is literally days old.
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I miss that man so much. Tomorrow would be his 84th birthday.
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Friend, I heard this on NPR in the car today, and immediately knew you’d be posting this, lol.
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The following dances are all either choreographed or performed by by NEA Medal of Honor recipients. I’ll post more later:
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Here’s to beauty; here’s to creativity; here’s to empathy and the celebration of our humanity through storytelling!
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The thing that all these little fucks have in common is a profound lack of talent, curiosity, or drive other than finding new ways to harm people.
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Oh, you like court intrigue, petit rat? Charm the king w/ your petit allegro. Do you even lift, bro? I studied dance for over 40 years. My colleagues have all done the same, along with all the other skills it takes to become an administrator.
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These little RETVRN shitheads who say they like classical arts— oh yeah? Come take a class, fucker. Every day is leg day in the studio.
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For something we love and believe in, only to have some little twerp who can’t write a basic excel function press the big red delete button on half of the country’s arts funding mechanism
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*waving vigorously* well shit, dude I guess we gotta get a michelada at the Tap now. It’s the law!
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I have a lot to say about Escobar, but that’s a post for another day. Suffice to say, the center approach to immigration continued T1 policies, while softening language. In the meanwhile, Abbot put buoys with circular saw blades in the river, and Biden didn’t pose a serious Federal challenge.
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They weren’t going to local schools because I saw them doing recess from my office window in the parking lot that had an astroturf “field” that spanned about 8 yards by
4 yards in-between parked Sprinter vans and chicken wire.
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In Downtown EP, there’s a former independent living center for the elderly that was emptied of its long term residents, and recommissioned as a center for unaccompanied children who are migrating. These kids, 4-8th grade from my visual approximation, spent their whole day there-
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Listen, I was an early AOC fan, but her capitulation to the center of the party and *shaky voice* “ugh, but,” with regards to 1) Gaza, and 2) asylum fomented a permanent distrust. Below is a video of a migrant interment camp outside of El Paso on I-54 that was popped up in 2023.
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I wish I had made that spec ad.
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Are you in Arts Ed, admin, or performance now? Everyone thinks of that “Ballerina Farm” girl as typical, but in my experience many LDS and ex-LDS are teachers, admins, studio owners. Curious about your experience.
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Is anyone reading this thread a BYU or Ricks College (BYU ID) dance alum? Message me. I went to a state school outside of UT. My dad didn’t want me to, “go to the marriage bureau for an MRS,” but both had EXCELLENT BFA programs, mentoring wonderful dance performers and educators.
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But the upper-middle class women who went to my Laurel class at church in high school and their husbands in the Priesthood who work for 3 letter agencies never did that work as young adults, and certainly never saw that in their future.
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I’ve accepted the fact that I’ll probably lose my arts job at the end of my contract as the market contracts and our individual/matching donors disappear. I’m prepared to go back to the service industry, and have a plan to buy a humble street cart and sell falafel while bartending on the weekends.
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There are a lot of people who devoted their lives to the stability of these systems who were also raised in apocalypse cults that sent them to live with minimal aid in the woods for weeks and certified them in firearms training as children, who have 2 years worth of food in their home.
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You joked a couple of weeks ago about the White Horse Prophecy, but the trickle down in the Arts, Humanities, and Education (a lot of LDS and ex-LDS women work in these fields) coupled with security and diplomatic job losses for their dudes… lol… a lot of us went to survivalist summer camps.
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My mom’s fam are Kaghakatzi Armenian Apostolic. Those in communion in the Coptic Church, have a special loathing for the Western Church, because of, you know, the Crusades and shit. Many Kaghakatzi are kin to Thoros of Edessa. My family LOVES Papa Francisco. Lighting candles for him tonight.
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Peggy Hackney’s work as a student of Bartenieff is another example. I am neurodivergent, and dance (especially the somatic techniques I learned) are so integral to my mental health and daily function.
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Speaking of Braindance, a LOT of these somatic techniques were specifically developed for children with neurodivergence or physical disabilities. Ann Green Gilbert was a student of Ayers who was foundational in researching motor acquisition and learning outcomes.
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I am well aware of the history of the “wellness” movement, and its history of alignment with the far-right. Bartienieff’s teacher, Laban, was- well just look him up. I’m curious about why crawdaddies with suspicious tattoos are walking me through a Braindance sequence on Insta like it’s 5am PT.
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Anyway, it makes me want to do some research on this phenomenon. I swear to god if I see another ruddy bro on HGH do bear crawls and talk about barefoot life…
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These grifter motherfuckers, I can only assume, come from Kinesiology/Sports Medicine departments where somatics from the dance program were integrated. Or, they were soldiers or athletes with dancer partner. Watching these fuckers smash my favorite fruit on the pavement makes me want to punch walls
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A whole industry of “Pilates Body” insta grifters floated out of the dance world, divorced from somatics history and somehow the dude bros caught on.
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Teachers of somatic techniques often came from ballet backgrounds and a pedagogy of violence, and sought out somatics because it was a gentle way to give dancers technical tools with the hope of avoiding injury and psychological harm.
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Many of techniques used in the modern dance community since the 60s started as a research response to violence. Joseph Pilates developed his techniques as a POW. Irmgard Bartenieff was a Jewish refugee during WII, and worked with polio patients.