I just posted some more thoughts about positive representation.

http://cripwheels.blogspot.com/2007/08/positive-representation.html

Like any article of the same ilk, I take issue with the message that, “ZOMG FAT GIRLS DANCING!”. As for what the dancers said while I don’t feel the positive type love, I was happy to see them get press at all.

Thanks for passing on Wheelchair Dancer’s review- very insightful.

I don’t think I understand your point. (That’s Wheelchair Dancer’s point.)

I read the Danza Voluminosa article and, in my own interpretation, might summarize the point of it as being, “Here’s something that, although you might expect otherwise, is something beautiful.” In doing so, it also advocates one of the same positions you yourself do, does it not, that dance is for every body.

I read your review of the Danza Voluminosa article and, in my own interpretation, you criticize Mr. McKinley’s approach in writing the article as being, what, exploitative of the dancers’ size and weight? Is my interpretation off the mark? Can you suggest, for illumination, how you think Mr. McKinley should have written the article?

Put another way, you seem to criticize society, or culture, for having preconceived notions of what is acceptable when it comes to dancers’ bodies. So then, in what way do you consider it acceptable to spread acceptance of non-”normal” bodies dancing if not in a way that presents, that shows, non-”normal” bodies dancing and then suggests how acceptable such a thing is?