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Barcelona International Dance

(BIDE) Barcelona International Dance Exchange 2017



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I am super super pleased to announce that I have been accepted in the Barcelona International Dance Exchange!!! I have procrastinated in applying to this program for a few years now, because I honestly did not know how I would fund this! Since I was a child I've always wanted to travel the world and track my Moorish ancestry in the Mediterranean and I would just dream & think on how I would get there! 



As as some of you may know, I've been dancing for going on 25 years now! The hardest thing for me has been staying in Dance as an independent thinker and creator! I have participated in many intensives, competitions, and companies, but I have not quite found my place. Over and over again, I would be reminded cosmically and by others that know me, that I just need to try to create and build something for myself! That's always easy to say, but doing that as an adult balancing full and part time positions, has been super taxing!! It makes me feel like I need to stop, ya know? 


Although I experience such pressures, I know I deserve the right to self-fulfill like everyone! To be young, black, queer, radical, and creative, I feel like I must continue to go past the boundaries society has prescribed to me! Never would I have thought Dance would take me across the country, and now potentially across the world!!! I have never been to Europe! 




What I am asking of you all is that you share this campaign! I ask that you share my artwork! I ask that you donate what you can to help me support my fees and travel! This is an amazing opportunity for me to take Afro-Contemporary movement to the next level! 


The program

B> Lab| This is a networking and exchange opportunity in which I will be meeting, dancing with, experimenting with Dance professionals from over 15 other countries. During my time we will be building and collaborating on ideas that we then present nightly each day of the program. This is like a 5 day dance speed dating process under a non-hierarchical structure that we meet for 6 hours. If I am chosen after this meeting, I will have the chance to return to Spain and develop work!

check out the program here:  BIDE Program


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Organizer

Sienna Black
Organizer
Rochester, NY

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