Anima Dance

["Rachel Brooker" <brooker.rachel@gmail.com>]

Hi All-
Reminder that Anima Dance will hold three events this week in the Triangle Area of North Carolina. Look for a writeup in the Independent Weekly today (not online yet, but will appear later at 
www.indyweek.com).
best,
Rachel

Thursday, January 24th, 7-10 pm
Invitation, the US premiere of Brooker's new audience-interactive group piece, at
The Scrap Exchange Gallery, 548 Foster Street, Durham, NC, 




www.scrapexchange.org
Donations will be collected for the Central Asia Institute, an organization building schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, http://www.ikat.org
For more on 
Invitation see below.

Friday, January 25th, 4:30-5:30 pm
Dance for Peace in Chapel Hill
Corner of Franklin and Elliot Streets (near Whole Foods)

Saturday, January 26th (Peoples' Movement Assembly International Day of Action!)
, 12:00-1:00 pm
Dance for Peace
 in Durham
Corner of Main and Gregson Streets
Dance for Peace
is a led dance event on these dates only at the weekly demonstration
against the war in Iraq. If you are interested in participating, wear
white. Or, just come support the demonstration and enjoy the dance!


Invitation 
(watch online at http://animadance.org/projects/invitation.htm)
Invitation is an
interactive dance work which opens with the words: "This is an
invitation to touch anywhere on exposed skin.  You are free to touch,
or not to touch. Please enter the space." Dancers arrange and rearrange
themselves, offering and withdrawing parts of the body as they compose
their invitations to the audience. In the words of reviewer Adam Bliss,
"As I moved about the installation, I was struck by the tenderness and
intense concentration shared by dancers and touchers alike" (complete
article attached). The work reveals, challenges and overcomes personal
barriers. Donations collected at the January 24th event will be given
to the Central Asia Institute, an organization that crosses national,
cultural and religious borders by building schools in rural Pakistan
and Afghanistan.

Dance for Peace
Brooker will lead a small
group of dancers and anyone else who is interested in joining in a
simple but expressive movement exercise at the two peace demonstrations
taking place in the Triangle on January 25th and 26th. No dance
experience is necessary to participate! Just come wearing white if
you'd like to join in. When asked about her motivations for holding
these Dance for Peace events, Brooker says:

 "Around the time
of the Iraq invasion, hundreds of people were coming to the weekly
demonstrations in Durham, and it was a relief to me to be able to
gather with others and express my opposition to the war. The
demonstrations have continued without interruption since 2003, but the
numbers are tiny now. I know opposition to the war is still out there
and growing. I've been living overseas for two years and feel like I've
been able to recharge my batteries in that time. So, I'd like to give
some of my energy to the peace movement here."

For more information visit www.animadance.org or email brooker.rachel@gmail.com.


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