Bill Stevens Dancing with Blindness
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- We don’t often think of blind people as dancers but Bill Stevens is about to change your mind. With courage, grace and gentle wit, he points outs how our culture has many unintentional biases towards what blindness is and what it means to be a non-sighted dancer. Besides being a great mover and dancer, Bill is an accomplished Jazz pianist, educator, and author. He is a member of the music faculty at Santa Clara University, where he directs the Musicianship / Sight-singing program and teaches Jazz Piano. He is also a teaching artist with Avivo, a collective of master educators dedicated to cultivating creativity through music and music teaching. Learn more about Bill at billstevensjazz.... He's just released his first album, A Blues by Any Other Name.
Bill refers to the book, Planet of the Blind, by Stephen Kuusisto. Find out more at stephenkuusist...
Dancing with Blindness was filmed by Vic Cooper during an Open Floor Conscious Dance workshop in Mountain View, California. Open Floor is a way for anyone to experience the joy of dancing and the support and resource of movement as a mindfulness practice. Find out more at openfloor.org/
He's deep in himself and yet obviously connects well with others!
❤❤❤beautiful story. 🎉🎉🎉
The way Bill feels and thinks about dancing is so resonant with me. I love the idea about the invitation, about moving not just for function, but for pleasure. About feeling the dance. I notice that he opens his hands and arms as an invitation to connect. Exactly. And as both a Contact Improv dancer and free-style dancer myself, I know that the way to include others in my dance experience, is to be so connected to me, that I can be fully there with them. This is a beautiful video. Thank you for creating and sharing it!
Thank you for the comment. Well said.
How captivating.. The joy I felt as he recounted finding himself in dance
Wow, how powerful are Bill's thoughts, and the dancing is beautiful. I am taking to heart how I can change my language. Thank you for sharing this important message.
Thanks Vic. Wonderful work. So inspiring to share and hear the voices of those of us who experience dance in a unique way. A real affirmation that Open Floor is inclusive of all of every body. Come as you are...
Thanks Jacqui!
Happy to announce that, thanks to Paz Diaz, the Spanish subtitles are now available here on RUclips. We now have English, German (by Juliana Barrett), Italian (Audrey Boss & Andrea Mirone), and Spanish with French, Dutch, Turkish and Russian in the works! What a great community. You all really put the I in OFI 🤗
He understands the concept of dance as an expression of the movement to music and mood. I can get my spouse to comprehend the following of a waltz. he is totally blind. he has never seen.I have had modern dance and have always admired dances of the 50-s60's. Irish dance3
super ! merci !
Hebrew subtitles now available! Thank you Anat Tamir.
Hey Vic, seems I may have seen a bit of this years back, I forgot you create video content. Lovely work!
French Subtitles now available! Thank you Deborah Bacon Dilts!
Dutch subtitles! Now available. Thank you Baukje van der Veen, Hester Slagman and Hester Hudig.
Russian subtitles are now available! Thank you Masha Kozlovskaya.
Русские субтитры теперь доступны! Спасибо Маше Козловской.