Oven Roasted Amii is a teacher I took from last summer in Seattle. She is powerful in her presence and wonderful to watch when she moves, speaks, teaches....all of it. I found these words of hers in an article and since saying them again would be copywrite, I will post them in the original print. True. So true.

"As a dancer in this culture," she continues, "you're dispossessed, disenfranchised, disempowered. You're a worker of the body. The only other workers of the body are whores and massage therapists and healers. So it puts you in a really delicate place in terms of your relationship with the rest of the community at large. People think you're an airhead or entirely 'of the body' -- sensual and non-articulate. You're publicly eroticized, too. Because your body is your tool, people feel they have permission to talk about it. Even smart, respectful artgoers feel they have the right to comment on my ass. To this day, I struggle with this arrangement because it's so anti-feminist in nature and because it's so disempowering: the quintessential objectification. This is a lifelong struggle, going from being an object to subjectivity. "

Indeed Ms. Legendre  ¶ 4:42 PM