My own dance
inheritance (heritage)
What has multiculturalism achieved?
Why and what is intercultural dialogue for greater understanding? |
Personal
inheritance
Creativity
and expression
Acting local connecting global
Being included
Belonging in a community
Making a community
Boys can dance and it’s exhilarating
You can join in other peoples’ dancing and they like it
Learning a broader dance heritage |
There are other
ways of dancing to different drums, beats and narratives, but it's
still dancing
Every-body can dance
Dance never stands still
L’Antoinette Stines |
Multiculturalism
- the achievements
An accepted
right to public cultural expression by minority groups
An increased solidarity within communities about their cultural
expression
Greater public value of diverse cultural expression
Mainstreaming of minority cultural operators as cultural producers
Greater confidence in minority communities about their cultural
products
|
Some diversification
of cultural products by mainstream cultural institutions
Increased visibility of diverse cultural activity |
Intercultural
dialogue for greater understanding |
Differences
to support and value
Differences
between individuals
Differences based around cultural identity
Differences of aesthetics in different dance contexts
Different reasons for dancing
Different learning needs
Different methodologies and pedagogies
Different bodies
Different contexts in which dance takes place and has meaning
Different audiences that widen the opportunity for dance to be valued |
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