Men & Girls Dance – Successful Risk-Taking

"It begins in doubt as the groups look at each other across a space in which there is only a carpet of newspaper. Hands extend invitations. Posture and movement is slowly imitated. Tentative connections are made. In this playground the men remember their own childhoods while the children play at being adults in professional roles. Somewhere in the middle, as their paths cross, they meet and begin to play."

Men & Girls Dance is a complex project which encourages those who encounter it to ask themselves questions, to turn their beliefs over in their minds, and to look at the world in different ways.

Read this beautifully written and considered blog post by François Matarasso in full as he does just that, on his site A Restless Art. https://arestlessart.com/2016/08/30/men-girls-dance-successful-risk-taking-in-participatory-art/