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Vulnerable Resilience

4 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

Vulnerable Resilience is an audio zine from media company DIYdancer, in collaboration with Okay, Let’s Unpack This. It's a collection of conversations, essays, and self-care moments all focused on dancer mental health.

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Episodes

You Have Permission

June 29, 2021 12:02 - 1 hour - 66.1 MB

DIYdancer, in partnership with Okay Let’s Unpack This, presents Vulnerable Resilience, an audio zine focused on dancer mental health.  In this final chapter, listen to a “messy talk," a format we collaborated on with dancer advocacy organization Whistle While You Work, featuring Duke University MFA student Alyah Baker, J. Bouey of The Dance Union podcast, Chanel DaSilva, founder of MOVE|NYC, Berlin-based performance artist Michael John Harper, and Gabrielle Salvatto, a dancer with Tanzcompa...

Erase the Stigma

June 22, 2021 12:42 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

DIYdancer, in partnership with Okay Let’s Unpack This, presents Vulnerable Resilience, an audio zine focused on dancer mental health.  In this third chapter, listen to a conversation with the founders of “Erase the Stigma Through Dance," Nina Madsen Puckett, Debbie Smith-Berlin, and Tzipporah Gerson-Miller; a sound interlude by Morgan Bobrow-Williams, and Misa Lucyshyn in conversation with Isla Clarke and Maxi Hawkeye Canion on trans and nonbinary experiences within the dance field.  Some ...

Swimming Upstream

June 15, 2021 10:18 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

DIYdancer presents Vulnerable Resilience, an audio zine focused on dancer mental health.  In this second chapter, listen to choreographer Caitlin Burns' journal entries about her experience with COVID-19, a tantalizing dreamscape from longtime Dd contributor Alejandra Iannone, and a provocative discussion about trauma and healing in dance with Whistle While You Work, featuring writer and dramaturg Robyn Doty and international dance artists Frances Chiaverini, Julia Eichten, and Vânia Doutel...

Under a Microscope

June 08, 2021 09:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

DIYdancer presents Vulnerable Resilience, an audio zine focused on dancer mental health.  In this first chapter, meet guest editors Leal Zielinska and Courtney Henry, hear a first-person essay from artist Janeill Cooper on her complicated relationship with dance, plus an interview about tools for self care with dancer and social worker Mario Espinoza, a free write prompt provided by Catherine Kirk, and a discussion about fear led by contributor Coco Alvarez-Mena, in conversation with Derek ...