{"id":45273,"date":"2020-03-20T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45273"},"modified":"2020-03-30T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:22:20","slug":"the-citizen-a-facebook-group-that-started-in-harrisonburg-connects-people-across-the-globe-through-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/the-citizen-a-facebook-group-that-started-in-harrisonburg-connects-people-across-the-globe-through-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Citizen: A Facebook group that started in Harrisonburg connects people across the globe through dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article by <strong>Nzar Sharif <\/strong>is republished with permission from The Citizen, an independent Harrisonburg-based news website with several EMU alumni involved, including co-founder <strong>Andrew Jenner<\/strong>. We encourage you to support their work: Visit the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/hburgcitizen.com\/\"><em>website<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheHburgCitizen\/\"><em>Facebook page<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Citizen often gets to news before we do. In this case, an email from alumnus <\/em><strong><em>Tom Brenneman<\/em><\/strong><em> alerted us to <\/em><strong><em>Katie Mansfield<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8216;s virtual dance parties &#8212; check it out, he wrote &#8212; and Katie said The Citizen was already on it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>With countries banning mass gatherings and governments and health organizations are urging people to practice social distance to stop the spread of COVID-19, people are having to get creative to make contact with each other and unite amid being quarantined.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Virginia\u2019s governor declared a state of emergency, one Harrisonburg resident started Dancing Resilience as a virtual dancing community to do just that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of building this online community is to make people feel connected, but in another form, said <strong>Katie Mansfield<\/strong>, Dancing Resilience\u2019s founder.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt felt important to honor the need to stay home\/stay out of circulation to protect the most vulnerable bodies and to honor the need to connect with each other and celebrate love and hope.&nbsp;I had just come from facilitating a STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience)&nbsp;training in Washington D.C,\u201d Mansfield said. \u201cThe tension and anxiety were so high, and my co-facilitator and I realized how much fear was gripping people, not just the people we were with, but many people all over the world. She and I worked hard to interrupt the sinking into fear and to amplify the vibration of love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mansfield, who works for Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> as a lead trainer for its <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/star\/\">Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience program<\/a>, is working to finish her PhD in expressive arts and conflict transformation. Her specific focus is on \u201cRe-friending the Body,\u201d which explores how \u201carts-based, embodied learning is critical for us to transform the violent patterns, historical harms, disconnection and mechanization that define so many social experiences these days,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hburgcitizen.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG-9739.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4948\"\/><figcaption>After finishing her 20 minutes of dance, Katie Mansfield allows people to introduce themselves and connect with each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mansfield started building the online community among her close friends, but once word spread, it became a global virtual dancing community where people joined the community from different states and other parts of the worlds. Mansfield&nbsp;dances five times a day for 20 minutes at a time, and others join in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, \u201cDancing Resilience\u201d is a private Facebook group that\u2019s spread by invitation, so Mansfield said if people are friends of hers, or friends of her friends, they can request to join the group, which \u201cseems to work\u201d for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inspiration for it also came from social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI read a Facebook post from my friend in Florence, Italy. Along with her challenges, she shared the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-europe-51886547\/coronavirus-italians-sing-from-their-windows-to-boost-morale\">creative initiative by Italians<\/a>&nbsp;in many locations to sing out their windows at a certain time of day to diminish isolation during mandated social distancing. It made me wonder what I and my friends could do, and for me the natural answer was dancing,\u201d Mansfield told&nbsp;<em>The Citizen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after, the private Facebook group which she called \u201cDancing Resilience\u201d started, and within a few days, 228 members had&nbsp;&nbsp;joined.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost of the participants are friends of mine, with whom I have danced before, in person. So, we have a great embodied memory of sharing space and movement and love,\u201d Mansfield said. \u201cSome of the participants are friends of friends, who just want to connect and move. It\u2019s been awesome to reconnect with some friends I haven\u2019t seen or talked to in weeks or months or years.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A global reach for &#8216;Dancing Resilience<\/strong>&#8216;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So far Dancing Resilience has participants from 17 states and six other countries, including Canada, Kenya, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and the UK. Ages so far range from 2 to people in their 50s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine Cole<\/strong>, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, said she found joy and happiness when she was able to connect again with Mansfield and many other friends whom she met in Harrisonburg when she attended a Summer Peacebuilding Workshop at Eastern Mennonite University.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carol Subino Sullivan<\/strong> from Atlanta is another participant who dances frequently. She said she hopes that the love, beauty and movement Mansfield has generated reverberates and inspires similar communities to spring up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a great way to cut through the isolation to bring community, joy, movement and hope in a dark time\u2013in a way that still keeps us from spreading the virus,\u201d Sullivan said. &nbsp;\u201cWith creativity, caring, resolve and technology, we can flatten the curve and protect our human community.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s daughter, who is now almost 2 years old, received a liver transplant last year that saved her life. But the medicine her daughter must take affects her immune system, so reducing social contact is important.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI cannot take any chances, so I\u2019m practicing strict social distancing,\u201d she said. \u201cI had let all of my dance communities know that I would no longer be attending in person.&nbsp;&nbsp;I told friends I wouldn\u2019t be able to gather with them for occasions we had planned.&nbsp;&nbsp;Though my resolve was firm, I still felt sad \u2014 dance, friendships all of these nourish my soul and help me to bring my best self into the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;Katie\u2019s invitation to join the virtual dance community met me at that place of sadness and created a path for our souls still to connect and be filled.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paulette Moore<\/strong> joined from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory near Toronto, Canada. She focused on the importance of dance and body movement especially in the time of uncertainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to remember that our own energies create our worlds and dancing transforms both our personal and collective energies,\u201d Moore said. \u201cPeople have become so data-driven, technologically-dependent and social media-focused that I believe many have forgotten we have bodies \u2014 and our bodies are the key to not just how we survive \u2014 but how we thrive.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Songs that match the mood<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mansfield said the music arrangement typically starts with something&nbsp;slow to allow people to arrive and stretch. Then, \u201cit moves into something that evokes the water element, praying for water, and feeling our own fluidity,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is not a specific dancing style. Dances could have different movement and rhythms each times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople are invited to move however they please,\u201d Mansfield said. \u201cSome people don\u2019t look at the screen much, just dancing in their own space to the music provided. Others get pretty interactive with other dancers by coming closer to the camera and engaging intentionally. Sometimes I invite individuals to lead us one at a time. Some people who\u2019ve joined are deeply skilled and trained dancers, while others of us just like to move our bodies to music. Some of us don\u2019t move much at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the playlist ends, participants will dance to a song or two \u201cthat are connective, celebratory, and\/or power-honoring,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes I\u2019ll put in songs that acknowledge the difficulty of isolation, the vulnerability of our humanity, as well as songs that emphasize possibilities, hope, and strength,\u201d Mansfield said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one constant is that the playlist always finishes with the song \u201cResilient\u201d by Rising Appalachia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only is Dancing Resilience connecting people and freeing them from isolation across the globe, but it\u2019s also an outlet for others in Harrisonburg, where the universities, schools and other businesses have closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donna Schminkey<\/strong>, an assistant professor of nursing at JMU, is a participant from Harrisonburg, who is self-isolating because of risk factors in her household.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe opportunity to reach out and be a part of a ritual that happens at more or less set times a day, to check-in with other people and see that we are not alone in the world, and to share music and movement with each other \u2014 this is the holiest thing I can think of doing right now,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Breaking the isolation \u2014&nbsp;virtually<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as important, she said dancing with others \u2014 even virtually \u2014&nbsp;makes her and her family feel less lonely, less isolated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese days are full of opportunities for us to show each other the best of our shared and individual humanity,\u201d Schminkey said.&nbsp;\u201cThat is what Katie has created for us.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is beautiful, and it is something that in our former life routines, there \u2018wasn\u2019t time for,\u2019 but now, we can be present for each other and attend to the sacred together, multiple times a day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also offered a welcome break from her work in trying to shift her classwork online to help her senior nursing students through their last weeks of college \u201cso they can join the ranks of healthcare professionals who are on the frontlines of this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is an urgency to my work, and it involves spending hours at the computer typing and talking,\u201d she said. \u201cTo stand up and move and immerse myself in journey dancing is a great gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for my daughter, the dancing resilience provides structure, and connection to the outer world, as well as a chance to move, even on rainy days. 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