{"id":27874,"date":"2013-01-27T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27874"},"modified":"2013-01-27T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:01:12","slug":"dance-explores-diversity-in-%e2%80%98exodus-project-ii%e2%80%99-jan-24-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27874","title":{"rendered":"Dance explores diversity in \u2018Exodus Project II\u2019 Jan. 24-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mtsunews.com\/exodus-project-2-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dance explores diversity in \u2018Exodus Project II\u2019 Jan. 24-25<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middle Tennessee State University<\/a><br \/>\nMurfreesboro, Tennessee<br \/>\n2013-01-18<\/p>\n<p>Topics ranging from biracial identity to physical disabilities will be explored through movement as MTSU Theatre and Dance presents \u201cThe Exodus Project II: Understanding Diversity Through Dance\u201d next week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe performance will run two nights, at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24-25, at Tucker Theatre inside the Boutwell Performing Arts Building on the MTSU campus.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe nationally recognized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/dance\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">MTSU Dance Program<\/a> has a commitment to multicultural and interdisciplinary education and sponsoring this dance concert is in line with fulfilling that mission, organizers say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Included will be performances by <a href=\"http:\/\/csbb.biz\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanie Batten Bland<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/csbb.biz\/intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Company Stefanie Batten Bland<\/a> in New York City; Amy Shelley and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolvingdoorsdance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angie Simmons<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolvingdoorsdance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evolving Doors Dance<\/a> in Denver, Colo.; and seven members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/dance\/dancetheatre.php\" target=\"_blank\">MTSU Dance Theatre<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBland will perform a piece called \u201cWeight,\u201d which examines her biracial identity. \u201cWhat is the weight of your cultural identity?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/theatre\/Nofsinger.php\" target=\"_blank\">[Kim Neal] Nofsinger<\/a> said of Bland\u2019s dance. \u201cHow does that hold you back or keep you down, or does that keep you grounded?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mtsunews.com\/exodus-project-2-dance\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance explores diversity in \u2018Exodus Project II\u2019 Jan. 24-25 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2013-01-18 Topics ranging from biracial identity to physical disabilities will be explored through movement as MTSU Theatre and Dance presents \u201cThe Exodus Project II: Understanding Diversity Through Dance\u201d next week. \u00a0 The performance will run two nights, at 7:30 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8],"tags":[13491,13492,13490,6725,13494,13495,13493,13489],"class_list":["post-27874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","tag-amy-shelley","tag-angie-simmons","tag-company-stefanie-batten-bland","tag-dance","tag-kim-neal-nofsinger","tag-kim-nofsinger","tag-middle-tennessee-state-university","tag-stefanie-batten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}