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When embodied traditions resist contemporary integration

My Indian classical dance training feels completely separate from my contemporary choreography and I cannot figure out how to let them inform each other without forcing it

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Physical cultural knowledge creates somatic barriers to creative synthesis across movement vocabularies.

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