Moving Stories - Inspirational Books for Personal Growth & Self-Improvement | Perfect for Motivation, Life Transitions & Emotional Healing
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A film, by Rob Fruchtman, Cornelia Ravenal, Mikael Sodersten, Wendy Sax Six, about diverse dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance Company who travel the world, working with youth who have experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees. In India they work with girls rescued from sex trafficking and gender violence; in Romania, with gypsy kids from one of Europe's worst slums; in South Korea, with young North Koreans who risked their lives to escape; and in Iraq, with a gifted young Muslim dancer, fighting to survive. Incredibly, they have just one week to teach the tools of choreography and collaboration to kids who may be enemies, who may have been abused, who may be suspicious and fearful, so that they can create dances to perform for their communities. As they struggle to break through, the dancer-teachers confront their own frustrations. Yet their students respond in extraordinary ways - and as they prepare to perform in public in what seems an impossibly short time, both students and teachers experience surprising transformations, unlocking feelings and stories in wellsprings of creativity.
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Recipient of several Festival Awards including the Sedona Humanitarian award, this film goes beyond the boundaries of what one might expect. The filmakers presented such a poignant view into the lives of at-risk youth and how they are moved to joyous experience through the power of dance & the exceptional mentoring of the dance teachers, who with care, guide them. Right away, you can see, most of these at-risk youth, who have lived with personal traumas, have no idea what is about to happen to them & within them. Within a few minutes of being introduced to their dance mentors, you can see their questions & fears melting away & something like a light switching on as they discover more of who they are & what they are capable of. Its like watching music come to life. Its moving to hear them tell their stories & see the process by which the dance teachers help open them to new ways of relating to themselves & others through movement. At the end of the workshop, we get to see each group perform on a large stage & its really spectacular. Its great to see dance clips of the Battery dancers/teachers in action throughout the video, which is a thing of beauty. Everyone should see this movie!
