I am committed to be an active part of the change that needs to be made in Dance Education, Dance Performance, and Dance Scholarship. I am proud to be a faculty member of an HBCU and I strive daily to identify and dismantle the racism that exists in forms of dance pedagogy, western dance aesthetics and the paradigms that privilege whiteness. I am growing in how I create community and I am actively engaging with the multitude of ways I need to
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33.
Ache that does not cut
Eyes that will not shut
Breath that can not deep
Brain that fears to sleep
Time take not our side
Wait, abate and still collide
As one and yet apart
The past before the start
A future to unfold
as if the years--have been on hold
Excite the contemplation
Mixed fear with anticipation
Catch, hold, soften and unravel
The distance our work has to travel.
mary@chasedance.com
202-796-8986
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Jamie Kraus, Adam Bove, Melisa Ackermann, Chunyi McIver,
Tara Bilinski , and Tom Kramer
All website photos show choreography by Mary A. Chase and Sharon Took-Zozaya, Tandy Beal,
Karl Schaffer, Tara Rynders, E.E. Balcos, Helen Hansen French, and Lauren Slone
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