{"id":971,"date":"2012-03-06T00:59:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/?p=971"},"modified":"2012-03-28T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:28:13","slug":"6-word-memoir-after-the-dance-anywhere-who-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/2012\/6-word-memoir-after-the-dance-anywhere-who-what\/","title":{"rendered":"@school curriculum: 6-word memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>after the dance\u00a0<em>anywhere<\/em>\u00a0(in 6 words)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">suddenly, everything was moving and different<br \/>\nfeeling the dance as globe wiggled<br \/>\nwhy sit when there is salsa?<br \/>\nboom boom in da room room<br \/>\nit was fun to move around<br \/>\nshake rattle and roll rumpus fest<br \/>\nno music we just shook it<br \/>\nsitting at my desk pencil dance<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 <a title=\"Smith Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithmag.net\/sixwordbook\/about\/\">Smith Magazine <\/a>challenged its readers to write a memoir in six words. Inspired by\u00a0Hemingway&#8217;s response to a similar earlier challenge he answered &#8220;For sale: baby shoes, never worn.&#8221; Proof that a lot can be told with just 6 words.<\/p>\n<p>Six-word memoirs have become a powerful tool to inspire conversation around a bigger idea and a simple way for individuals to break the ice. Each year many additional categories for writing have been created. There is one specific to teens and another for classroom projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Start a new category\u00a0<strong>after the dance <em>anywhere and send us your 6 words!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After the dance, stop for a moment to reflect upon your unique moment of dance <em>anywhere. <\/em>Consider counterpoints:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">local vs global &#8211; still vs. moving &#8211; slow motion vs. fast &#8211; in unison vs. free form &#8211; salsa vs. texas two step &#8211; folkloric vs. hip hop &#8211; jazz vs. waltz &#8211; ballet vs. zumba &#8211; cha cha cha vs. tango<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;stop for a moment to reflect upon your unique moment of dance anywhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[107],"tags":[113,155,114,13,265,238,261,237,29,79,260,259,115,241,18,169,266,126,167,244,258,131,134,171,217,256,229,230,248,264,172,236,220,257,263,262,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}