Community dance interview DANZ 2018

Community dance is a multi-dimensional practice within Aotearoa New Zealand. In its diversity, community dance lends itself to interrogation: what is community dance? who is community dance for? and how are specific attitudes or philosophies of community dance refined and communicated across generations?

For those pondering the latter, community dance practitioners and facilitators Carlene Newall de Jesus and Cindy Jang have plenty of hands-on experience.

Newall de Jesus, a PhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Auckland, has worked in community dance for 10 years. Jang, an up-and-coming choreographer and dance researcher, has developed her own community dance practice with local church youth groups and in her teaching. Together, Jang acts as Newall de Jesus' research assistant - their praxis bound both in vision and friendship.

https://danz.org.nz/passing-the-torch