This week Festival Director Anne Morris speaks with Tarayjah Hoey-Gordon, a dance educator, movement artist, and the founder of Dance Now Cry Later, an organization created to Educate, Elevate, and Inspire the next generation of dancers. Tarayjah shares the creative ways she’s finding to mentor young dance artists and describes her drive to create spaces and relationships that she would have benefitted from as she came up in the dance community. Tarayjah provides insight on how we can better respect Street Dance culture and break down the barriers between communities in the dance world, including studio dancers, street dancers, K-12 dance educators, and more. Hear how her position on the border of many of these communities provides a unique perspective and fuels her dedication to feed the NC dance community as a whole.

"In Process" is sponsored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's Performing Arts Medicine Clinic: WakeHealth.edu/PerformingArtsMed

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