Alvarez speaks on the process of the piece, which took almost two years to develop. With joyUS justUS,she looked into everything unique about each artist involved. Working with 8 dancers of diverse backgrounds, she was not looking for unity but for the thing that makes each artist different. Through the work, the dancers were really connected to each other.
“After the 2016 election we needed a piece about joy – joy as a weapon in a world adjusting to so much pain.” She speaks of the concept of joy as a mechanism for social change. “The world can’t be just if we don’t have joy.”
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