We ran, for a little while, a non-profit in our daughter’s memory. She died at four, and had really enjoyed dance classes. There was something so strongly affirming about using the body to dance that seemed like a big “fuck you” to cancer. And we had money, and paid for dance lessons for individuals and at our local public school.
We aren’t really non-profit managing people as it turned out -- shit at asking for money, and too disorganized for the mechanics of it -- so when we spent all the money we had raised, we stopped. But it was a fine thing to do, to scrape back a little space from that fucker cancer, and make a little room for movement and feeling and beauty.
Much love and support for your work with Onco-Ballet, Anna, it seems like a fine and important thing. Thank you, Martha, for your interview.
Oh, Martha, thank you again.
We ran, for a little while, a non-profit in our daughter’s memory. She died at four, and had really enjoyed dance classes. There was something so strongly affirming about using the body to dance that seemed like a big “fuck you” to cancer. And we had money, and paid for dance lessons for individuals and at our local public school.
We aren’t really non-profit managing people as it turned out -- shit at asking for money, and too disorganized for the mechanics of it -- so when we spent all the money we had raised, we stopped. But it was a fine thing to do, to scrape back a little space from that fucker cancer, and make a little room for movement and feeling and beauty.
Much love and support for your work with Onco-Ballet, Anna, it seems like a fine and important thing. Thank you, Martha, for your interview.