Apr 5
First time designing costumes for two shows at once… 🥹💖
Dance Nation
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First time designing costumes for two shows at once… 🥹💖
Dance Nation
People say I dance with a lot of grace and that I'm beautiful and above-average and stuff. Here's what they don't say. They don't say I'm sensational. They don't say I take their breath away. They don't say they could watch me forever. They don't say they cry when they watch me dance. When they watch Amina dance, they cry. I know. Because I cry when I watch Amina dance. My mom asked me to dance for her cancer. She saw a documentary about this woman who did a dance and it cured her cancer and so she asked me if I would do a dance for her and my Mom is not normally like that but she was feeling really emotional at the time and she kept breaking down all the time so I did this solo at the year-end recital for my Mom and her cancer. And I tried to make it the best dance I had ever done. I tried to like feel things with my arms and my legs. I tried to make people feel things with my arms and my legs. But it was just an ordinary dance, really. A lot of people didn't know it was about my Mom's cancer at all. They thought it was about whatever our dances are usually about. Flowers. Or sailors, you know. Not cancer. I didn't make them cry. I didn't make myself cry. I don't even think I made my Mom cry. She told me that she liked it. But she didn't cry. And it didn't cure her cancer, so. Her cancer actually got worse after that, so. It was just an ordinary dance.
Clare Barron, Dance Nation (2018)
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Do You Know “Dance Nation”?
Yes, I’ve been in/worked on it
Yes, I’ve seen it
Yes, I’ve read it
No, but I’ve heard of it
No, never heard of it
September Reading Wrap Up
Connie, Sofia, Ashlee, Amina, and Maeve (Dance Nation)
The play has a scene where the girls discuss circumcision and try to figure out if the lone boy on their dance team is circumcised or not.
Connie isn't Jewish, but her dad is circumcised and her son will be too.
Sofia thinks "it's barbaric to cut off a piece of your baby's penis" and that "sex is better with an uncircumcised penis". She would "never ever ever ever ever" marry a man that's pro-circumcision, but she doesn't judge the other girls for wanting to do it.
Ashlee is Jewish, but she would get her son circumcised even if she wasn't because "boys who are uncircumcised get made fun of a lot in the locker room".
Amina is surprised to hear that Sofia wouldn't do it because "everyone is circumcised".
Maeve thinks male circumcision is fine, but female circumcision is bad because it stops girls from masturbating.
Would She Snip?: Yes, no, yes, yes, yes
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