Leah Cox in Chapel/Chapter (Bill T. Jones Company); photo by Paul B. Goode

An inspiring quote from Leah Cox's artist profile on the blog. I asked her to pose two questions for young dancers to consider. Her questions are important for dancers of all ages…..

How will you re-conceive the possibilities for dance in a way that ensures it has a future that people can participate in as audiences, practitioners, creators, and citizens?  In other words, are you training in a manner that assumes that there is a dance world for you to enter and you are its new burden to take care of/give a job to, or are you training in a manner that assumes you are preparing to build the form and create as yet unknown jobs and possibilities for yourself? 

What are your life values and how is dance an essential platform/way of advancing those values?

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