Dance - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF) https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:15:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Dance for non-dancers: a journal exploring the link between dance and everyday life https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/motor-dance-journal/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:18:53 +0000 https://www.friendsoffriends.com/?p=98976 Isabelle Bucklow and Hannah Woods met while studying History of Art in London. Their shared passion and fondness for performance quickly formed a strong creative relationship—they read each other’s essays, recommended books to each other, and attended exhibitions together. These exchanges  nurtured their shared love of dance and writing, and ultimately led them to question

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]]> Kianí del Valle: Healing wounds through dance https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/kiani-del-valle/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:04:21 +0000 https://www.friendsoffriends.com/?p=96551 An integral aspect of Kianí’s arrival to dancing was her family’s Caribbean roots. “I was brought up in a country where everybody around me was dancing. My grandpa was dancing with literally everybody at the parties. My grandma was dancing and cooking.” While her mother was writing her doctoral thesis, Kianí was raised by her

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]]> Normalizing discussions around mental health with Berlin-based podcast Therapy of Dance, In Conversation https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/therapy-of-dance-in-conversation/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/therapy-of-dance-in-conversation/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:00:09 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2020/02/10/therapy-of-dance-in-conversation/ “Ever since we moved to Berlin, Ella and I have not shut up,” says New Zealand born and Berlin-based creative Elise Mireille, who met her friend, now creative partner, Ella Newell in 2016. “The biggest thing we bonded over was our curiosity for the human experience and our shared, somewhat constant need to reflect on

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]]> https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/therapy-of-dance-in-conversation/feed/ 0 Narratives of home told through the language of dance with Medhat Aldaabal https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/narratives-of-home-told-through-the-language-of-dance-with-medhat-aldaabal/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/dance/narratives-of-home-told-through-the-language-of-dance-with-medhat-aldaabal/#respond Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:24:35 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2018/08/16/narratives-of-home-told-through-the-language-of-dance-with-medhat-aldaabal/ It was in this exact spot two years ago that the contemporary dancer and choreographer’s first performance of his personal piece Amal took center stage. Amal depicts its four immigrant protagonists’ state of being in-between; between Syria, Medhat’s native country, and a new society in Berlin, his home since 2015. Or, as Medhat calls it,

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