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About Dance Adventures: True Stories About Dancing Abroad
Product Description Dance provides a way to travel far beyond the typical tourist experience. By connecting with local people through a shared love of movement, dancers catalyze many unique opportunities. They build cross-cultural friendships with dance as the only shared language, discover ways to train with celebrated teachers, experience cultural immersion key to their personal development, and more. In this anthology, you'll find stories from renowned performers, dance educators, and other avid dance adventurers. Their tales about epic dance adventures across North America, Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa highlight various dance traditions, as well as unique aspects of each country's geography, history, demographics and educational systems. In this way, Dance Adventures celebrates the power of dance to connect us to the best parts of humanity, as well as to the best parts of ourselves. Review "This book is indispensable in light of the current social momentum with regard to Black lives and the dismantling of violent systems. Many of the stories portray the experiences of individuals in whom multiple languages, customs, and spaces coexist, and for whom dance is the unifying factor." --Moncell Durden, Assistant Professor of Practice, USC Kaufman School of Dance "A heartwarming, humorous, and enlightening anthology, Dance Adventures is a pivotal text capturing rich narratives that can help students prepare for the unknown and integrate their own life-changing experiences from dancing abroad." --Rick Southerland, MFA, Associate Professor of Dance, Goucher College, past president of the National Dance Education Organization (2016-2018) "In a pandemic-gripped world full of restrictions and uncertainties, Dance Adventures offers readers an escape. This diverse collection of stories encourages us to dream of embodied explorations, and once more to discover human connectivity through dance and movement." --Jen Peters, dance writer, performer, and teacher "Armchair travel has never had it so good! Dropping into these cultural adventures is like landing feet first on the most dynamic dance floors around the globe. Each carefully curated story gives a dancer's-eye view of the people, places, and practices that enrich our planet." --Mark Metz, publisher of Conscious Dancer Magazine and founder of The Dance First Association " Dance Adventures contains beautiful moments of transformation and connection through dance--a wonderful extension of Meg's own mission. The anthology's writers create a strong case for using dance to understand the world." --Mickela Mallozzi, Emmy® Award-winning TV host of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi About the Author Megan Taylor Morrison holds a masters in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelors in international affairs from the University of Puget Sound. She is an avid dance adventurer, as well as a certified life and business coach. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Huffington Post and USA Today. Meg has studied local dance forms in 16 countries on six continents, as well as designed and co-led educational retreats in multiple countries. Meg debuted her talk, "Dance Travel: The Next Era of Dance Education," in partnership with Melaina Spitzer at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference in 2018. Through lectures, roundtables, and articles, Meg continues to share best practices for cultural immersion through the arts. While Meg loves many different styles, her favorite dances will always be American vernacular jazz dances. Meg has taught lindy hop, blues, Charleston, collegiate shag, and other jazz-era dances at venues across the United States since 2006. She has also taught, performed, or competed at national events such as The Process, BluesShout, the American Lindy Hop Championships, and the International Lindy Hop Championships. In 2015, Meg founded a dance travel compa
