ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the practices and decision-making processes that shape community-based dance practice and pedagogy. It focuses on two collectives, Bailarines Toda la Vida (Dancers for Life) and Community Dance at Reed. These groups are based in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Portland, Oregon, and United States. It explores both groups’ approach to movement education and the collective creation of dance works with social justice-oriented themes. It demonstrates how these projects’ practices function in different sociocultural contexts, each shaped by different political exigencies, to galvanize and support current and future community dance research projects.
