Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It's been said that it's not where people start that matters as much as where they finish.
In just a few years, the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, under the leadership of founding artistic director Greer Reed, has sprouted from a little-known dance troupe in Western Pennsylvania into a home for up-and-coming dancers starting to make a splash on the national arts scene.
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This is an intriguing concept for a dance piece. I don't really see how the two cultures relate to each. I realize that they are both cultures that have faced trials but celebrating them both at the same time is just a little odd. Even in the article it says that the two pieces are vastly different. I think it would be more of an honor to the two cultures were celebrated separately. I would love to see the dance because I want to know how they went about honoring cultures. Honoring specific cultures through dance is a hard thing to do. The balance of how to keep the dance intriguing and beautiful well still honoring the culture is quite hard.
Congrats to them! It'll be interesting to see how they integrate and draw parallels between the two cultures since they're so different and so rich in history. Since music plays a big role in both cultures, telling their stories through movement that the music inspires and honoring these cultures and everything they've faced through the art of dance is probably one of the most beautiful ways that can be done. It'll also be interesting to see if and how traditional dances from both cultures will be expressed and meshed together.
This is definitely a dance concert that I would've loved to attend. Really wish I came across this article a couple of weeks ago. But very interesting - dance pieces based off of two of the parts of World History that I find most intriguing and effective...I think that this would have been so inspiring to me, and at the same time maybe even depressing, but the fact that we are able to tell these stories through Art makes you think; "Well at least all of those hardships did not just go to waste. At least the people who suffered these terrible holocausts lives were not in vain. At least they are still alive - in us".
What a beautiful collaboration. It honestly warms my heart thinking about it. Its always something to see one race rise from the ashes and to tell their story but here we have two oppressed races coming together and making something beautiful. This is what art is about, making a change. That is why i make art, to change the world. Theres always the argument of who had it worse, when it doesn't matter who had it worse. What matters is what happens now, and this is happening now. This is something special. I wish i could have gotten the chance to see it.
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