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Safi A. Thomas

"To be an artist you must embrace both ambiguity and change. If you are unwilling or unable to this, your career as an artist will be short lived or extremely annoying. Both are your choice." -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #dancengo #hiphoptheatre #hiphopdance #hiphopdancer #moderndance #artsed #hiphoped (at H+ The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory)

"The criteria for judging a dancer's aptitude must be based on something quantifiable & empirical. Mimicry of choreography is not dance aptitude. Being your 'friend' does not contribute to their dance aptitude. They need to have a command of their body and an understanding of dynamic range. They require assessment skills, critical thinking & creative thinking. It is our job as choreographers to imbue this skillset." #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #hiphopdancers #hiphoptheatre #hiphop #nycdancers #ladancers #NYC #nycdance (at H+ The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory)

"I applaud the desire of a dancer to be original. But we cannot sacrifice dance education for a "feeling" of originality. Originality is a deliberate and systematic dismantling of ubiquity. Not a hodgepodge of random, off-beat, unfinished movement with no direction and no vocabulary to teach it." -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #hiphoptheatre #hiphopdance #dancers #danceNGO #artsed #danceeducation #dancestudio #educationiskey (at H+ The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory)

"There must be a purity relative to movement. Movement purity requires honesty. Honest articulation and assessment of movement informs its authenticity. It's not about "feeling" honest as most dancers think, but more about being empirically reflective and being truthful in your self assessment in order to effectuate positive change within your limbic system. This leads to individual growth as a dancer. Which then allows you to lead the charge as a vanguard of truth within our art-form. Not through words alone, but through action. Your very presence within the art-form creates an aura of truth, and with it comes a silent request to follow suit. If this is your impact you have done well and you have contributed to dance in an honest and spellbinding way." -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #dancengo #hiphopdance #hiphoptheatre #hiphoped #artsed #ballet #moderndance #nycdancers (at H+ The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory)

"The erasure of women in hip-hop dance happens daily. In covert and surreptitious ways. Which then makes it difficult to address. Very few men will admit that a woman taught them. Even fewer will admit that a woman had an equal impact on the art-form. Then women start their own dance organizations to pay homage to each other. Then men say, "That's unnecessary, but I respect your right to do so. Do you." These same men say, "I respect women." Yet how we define respect as men has more to do with symbolic actions we take (like offering a woman a seat on the train or offering to carry a baby stroller up some stairs) than it does actually deconstructing our covert sexism." -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #inspiration #positivevibes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #danceNGO #hiphopdancers #artsed #hiphoptheatre #hiphoped #nycdancers #safithomasquotes #dancequotes #quotestoliveby #quotesbyme #quotesaboutlife

Off beat dancing is destroying the quality of our suffering in this horrid world.😂 #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #hiphop #hiphopdance #hiphopdancers #hiphoptheatre

"It is not enough to simply acknowledge people's pain. That's pain tourism. Where you gawk at the sight of their suffering or experience. Be it sexism, abuse, suicidal ideation, rape, sexual assault, depression, racism, gender bias, etc. The key is to also acknowledge your role in the perpetuation of an environment which condones these actions against the oppressed. Don't be an oppression tourist and thank people for sharing their stories. They share their stories for you to recognize the issue and to solve it within YOU as well and maybe get an ally." #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #advocacy