WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine

What this episode covers

For this July Full Moon Risa interviews Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza. We talked about the way each brain is a unique map of the world, and how we write on each other. "Meeting you today has changed my brain" said Joe. We talked about the knowledge in dance, and the power of “dreaming together” in Pow Wow. And we talked about why a history of colonialism is also a history of dances outlawed. "Dance for me is epistemological and ontological: Dance Has Knowledge... Dance is a way that people have held onto their power and shared their power stories. In a history of oppression there's good reason to tamp out dance. I'm very heartened by its return." (Rebecca Barnstaple.)