Danalane

"Our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory."

[latenightdyke]

I needed to take hospitalglam pictures that felt very vulnerable to me on this day. My friend @invisiblyafflicted had just received news that her abusive doctors would no longer allow or help her to manage/treat her severe, completely debilitating pain. We (her more than me of course) are devastated. It is still so painful to acknowledge that very soon this person whom I love will be suffering even more at the hands of someone who will see no repercussions for their tortorous actions.

It has to be known by everyone how easily, and how often the medical industry abuses disabled chronic pain patients in countless ways. 

Too many doctors do not care about our quality of life. Too many of them use ableist ideologies as reasoning in their medical practice. Too many of them believe our pain is a result of our choices and mindsets. Even one doctor would be too many, but we’ve all experienced it.

Fighting the battle to be adequately treated is so immensely hard. We are already fighting our own bodies, we don’t have the ability to change an entire society’s views. What we do have is support for each other, and the effort to raise awareness. 

We all deserve care. We all deserve the best quality life possible. We all deserve not to die at the hands of the system that hates spending money on us. This should not be radical idea, and yet it is so far away from being achieved. It is constantly and actively fought against.

If you are chronically ill, share & reblog.

If you are able-bodied, share & reblog.

If you’ve ever experienced or wanted to change any type of injustice, share & reblog. The disabled community is in danger, we need you to be aware, we need educated allies. This is just one of the battles we’re fighting right now.

[hospitalglam]

One of the most difficult things to hear is when someone is happy that I don’t let it stop me. Both because I’m not sure what it really means and it’s not true.

My disabilities stop me, daily. I am not ashamed of this. They are not the only thing stopping me, nor would being fully abled open every door that’s been shut. I live at an intersection. I work with what I have. I’ve learned to ask for accommodations and do what I need to make sure my needs are met. Sometimes even with my best efforts, I’ll fall short and need to stop.

The idea that if I stop I fail is damaging. Self care is more; it allows leeway to stop and restore ourselves before we burn out. Do we lack the language to appreciate our ability to be bodily fragile and still show up for ourselves? Let’s stop pitting our bodies against us as though they’re separate.  

She doesn’t let it stop her.  

She shows up for herself.

[chicgarden]

[old-school-feminist-blog]

I tell you, the more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh (via kvtes)

[danalanes]

amphibiousness, this ability to plunge into his amphibiousness, this ability to plunge into the downward reptilian welter of the individual self and yet raise himself with whatever knowledge he gained there out on the hard edges of the historical present.

Seamus Heaney

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lil clip of my dance work

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feelin medicinal

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We are aware of the connection between effort and pleasure, we are aware of the distance between our body parts, we are aware of the friction between flesh and bones, we sense the weight of our body parts, yet, our form is not shaped by gravity . . . We are aware of where we hold unnecessary tension, we let go only to bring life and efficient movement to where we let go . . . We are turning on the volume of listening to our body, we appreciate small gestures, we are measuring and playing with the texture of our flesh and skin, we might be silly, we can laugh at ourselves. We connect to the sense of “plenty of time,” especially when we move fast, we learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal we are and the power of our imagination. We are “body builders with a soft spine.” We are aware of people in the room and we realize that we are not in the center of it all.

-Ohad Naharin

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Breathtaking work

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The love of moving has been always at the heart of why I dance; it is also partially why I choreograph. I’ve learned that listening to the body is a lot more meaningful than telling it what to do. One can get from dancing a great sense of clarity, explosiveness, and delicacy while allowing us to go far beyond our familiar limits. All these things are necessary ingredients to fuel a good process in and out of the studio. Choreographing allows the pleasure of working with dancers: the sharing, teaching, learning, the realization that I can’t and should not fall in love with my work, yet I can be excited and moved to tears by the dancers’ interpretation of it. -Ohad Naharin

http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/October-2013/Why-I-Choreograph-Ohad-Naharin#sthash.o0PS7Mcd.dpuf

[millthompson]

[danalanes]

Writing a paper on Alvin Ailey. So into those waving torsos. Revelations is a legendary piece of dance history.

[daesyparts]

Kirsten Dunst as Lux Lisbon in The Virgin Suicides, 2000.

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❤

[ontheveldt]

Sam Cooke recording at RCA Studios, 1959

[pretty-casual]