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+ Women's figure skating last night was epic, and also, exploding with awesome Asian women- Mao Asada! Miki Ando! Mirai Nagasu! Kim Yu-Na! &hearts &hearts &hearts ( pretties~ )

Rachael Flatt was adorbs as well, but I was infinitely less excited about her after watching all that amazingface, heh. I cannot wait for tomorrow, basically! *____*

+ Nurturing the artist, an amazing interview with dancer/choreographer/dramatist Lee Su-Feh (via someone on the network):

Part of why we dance is that so much of dance is about shared code. In a shared culture, dance transmits the cultural code. The logic of the dancing body, the rhythms, the manners — the things transmitted through the dances are [found] in that society. But if you take that dance to another culture, those codes don’t make sense. So the dance becomes decoration and it’s just pretty. If it’s just pretty, it becomes an object — you can buy it, you can toss it away. And fundamentally, I don’t think that’s what dance is for but for the most part, that’s what dance has become.

So when we live in a multicultural and diverse world, without a shared mythology, how do we connect to our bodies? How do we address the question of dance? Yet, I think we all need to feel each other’s bodies, to have a fuller understanding of each other. Understanding is not just intellectual. There’s a whole body intelligence that I feel is missing in our efforts to live together.

+ avendya's posted Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships over at disability. Things to check out!