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How body image affects creative movement choices

My body does not look like other dancers and I spend rehearsals wondering if my movement reads as less beautiful because of my size

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Internalized aesthetic standards can cause the artist to self-edit their natural expression before it fully emerges.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Dance and movement as creativity?”

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