No one puts Baby in the corner: Raymond Rodriguez

Raymond Rodriguez, former principal dancer with the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet (and also Assistant Artistic Director and Managing Director), current Head of Studio Company and Trainee Program at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, describes what it's like to be "aged out" of a career before feeling ready. Do we ever feel ready to sit on the sidelines once we've built a life onstage, in performance? Luckily for the Studio Company and Trainees at the Joffrey, Raymond uses his experience to educate, i...

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The conversation begins at the intersection of performing art and political activism: performing artists discuss topics ranging from body autonomy (or lack thereof) and commodification to the consequences of performing politcal art and how we create it, and how, in this time of divisiveness, we can mobilize as individuals, audiences, and a cooperative enterprise to effect change.