COMMUNITY MOVEMENTS
Community Movements is a community performance produced and created by the Kinesis Project and performed by interested volunteers from specific communities. The process and performance focuses on expression, connecting movement to surviving violent crime and domestic abuse as individuals and as a community.
The purpose of Community Movements is to widen awareness of violent crime and survivorship by assisting members of a community to support, trust, and communicate with one another in an artistic setting.
Inspired by the concept of “Take Back the Night” Community Movements is based on the imperative of bringing light and hope into the dark corners of a community.
By partnering with colleges and universities and the mental health professionals in those institutions, the Kinesis Project hopes to engage students in open dialogue about violent crime and the shadows of guilt and victimization. Classes will be structured workshop environments allowing participants to use their own bodies to express and explore the feelings involved with such wide and universal themes as self-doubt, betrayal and anger, or self-assertiveness, trust and kindness.
In an outdoor performance, the workshop participants will dance together in their own choreographed expression of what it means to bring light and hope into dark corners.
Community Movements expresses the goals of the Puffin Foundation’s mission by combining the creativity and freedom of dance with volunteers of all ages, while addressing the issue of violence in the community.