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How historical trauma affects artistic cultural expression

My contemporary dance pieces draw from Rwandan traditional movements but survivors of the genocide say I should not use these sacred forms for entertainment

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The choreographer encounters the weight of collective memory in determining appropriate use of cultural forms.

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