What do we do when it feels like people are so far from understanding one another?

What do we do when people consider art elitist and a waste of time?

How do we prove them wrong? How do we prove the value of what we do, or is this even our responsibility? Do we have a duty to prove the greater worth of dance, or is our job just to do it? 

Do we keep it cloistered, safe, where it can continue to thrive, following a traditional formula? 

Do we spread it, focusing efforts on accessibility?

Anyway, can dance tangibly help people in despair? What about people whose hearts are full of entitlement? What about hatred? What about people who have always felt inadequate, always excluded from art? What about people who are afraid? What about people grieving? 

How can we use what we do to bring people together? Can it heal? Individually, yes. Surely. But how about on a larger scale? 

Can an abstract art form like dance really, really help people? I think yes. 

How? Yes, that is the next question. I don’t fully know, but we can start by thanking the people who taught us to love dance and art, teach your own love to others, dive in, break tradition, don’t be afraid of differing opinions, don’t be afraid to believe that what you do is important.