{"id":188,"date":"2009-03-02T22:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-03-02T22:40:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:40:03","slug":"what-makes-a-dance-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/what-makes-a-dance-community\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a (dance) community?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve moved to New York City, I find myself again dipping my toes into dance classes and yoga. No ballet just yet, but I&#8217;m already on a dance email list for my samba class. I&#8217;ve also attended a <a href=\"http:\/\/greatdance.com\/thekineticinterface\/2009\/02\/dance-and-animation-program-at\/\">dance-animation program in Brooklyn<\/a>, and am simply keeping up to date on dance-related activities. (One cannot have too much dance, right?)<\/p>\n<p>At one time, I had no trouble at all saying that I was an active member of the dance community. Now, I&#8217;m not so sure. I wonder what makes one part of a community? Is it becoming a core producer, such as a dance artist, or is it simply one who affects the community in some way? I think the internet has helped more people become involved in the dance community who would not otherwise have been members, but I wonder if there are still degrees of community membership. Since I find myself thinking about the growing use of the internet within the context of dance, I&#8217;m thinking that this will be a vein of inquiry for me in the near future. (At least I hope so.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should start by interviewing &#8220;well known&#8221; dance bloggers about their adoption of the internet publishing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve moved to New York City, I find myself again dipping my toes into dance classes and yoga. No ballet just yet, but I&#8217;m already on a dance email list for my samba class. I&#8217;ve also attended a dance-animation program in Brooklyn, and am simply keeping up to date on dance-related activities. (One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/what-makes-a-dance-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What makes a (dance) community?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[30,32,335,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}