Dance as Community

Call for Peace Drum and Dance Company

Dance is a communicator, it tells "story;" dance builds community.

This brand new 3rd edition of "Words and Violence" features Performance Arts as a catalyst for change, for compassion, for human evolution in “story” conveyed:

• Through the force of words
• Through the eyes of art
• Through the language of movement,
• Through the magic of film
• Through the magic of storytelling via “song.”

It’s part of the movement toward a new narrative on the planet– one that is compassionate, responsible and deliberately created. WE write the script. WE perform the dance and dramas. WE sing the world into being. WE are the narrators and the narrative. WE tell the story of the world. The world is a performance! Our performance!

The world is a vectoring of what we dance.

It’s the collective performance of humanity, a work-in-progress. The soundtrack of your life is the soundtrack of the planet. What lyrics do you want to sing? What dance do you want to dream? What live play do you want to perform? What motion picture do you want to create the world to be? What song do you want to join to sing the world into being? What new language do you want to create? What new story of the world do you want to tell?

“Words and Violence” is featured front page! We just released the 3^rd edition to 120 countries on August 29. The work will help to stem bullying in all its incarnations, where it’s found and where it’s addressed: school, home, media, social justice, political reform  and the arts…  See the front page feature: http://voiceseducation.org/

Speaking of the arts, we felt that the Performing Arts was the perfect place to begin showcasing the antidotes and ways to reverse bullying because we believe the arts, and particularly the performing arts, shows the most promise for changing the paradigm and creating a more humane narrative on the planet.

Introducing the 3^rd edition: http://voiceseducation.org/node/5981

New “Performance Arts” section: http://voiceseducation.org/node/5996
(see the list at the bottom of the page or click through the section via the next “title” bottom right)

Contributors: (Updates in progress)  http://voiceseducation.org/node/2487

Borrowing from David Letterman:
Top Ten Ways YOU can help promote “Words and Violence” and Compassionate Voices:

1.       Sharing the links

2.       Blogging about the project

3.       Talking to educators about this resource

4.       Taking it to your school, principal, High School, university, school of journalism or the arts

5.       Using the content in your programs (more than 600 pages of resources)

6.       Making a contribution to Compassionate Voices or asking others to contribute
https://compassionateaction.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=7&reset=1&id=6

7.       Notifying your constituencies about this resource

8.       Becoming a partner: Signing the charter for Compassion: http://compassionateaction.org/partners

9.       Nominate your school, college, organization or city as a compassionate partner http://compassionateaction.org/programs

10.   Become a volunteer or volunteer contributor to “Words and Violence” or recommend someone.   Write to Barbara Kaufmann personally with your ideas. (See email link right sidebar) 

 The Words and Violence materials are free for downloading to educators and interested parties except for products developed by artists featured in the new section (original musical scores, films and accompanying teacher's resources)