ONE BILLION RISING
REVOLUTION DANCING
In 2015, this call for revolution came to fruition
when we saw millions of activists in 200 countries
rise for REVOLUTION to change the paradigm and
knock down the system so that the healing of our
planet and its women can be possible.
Dancing allows us to come back into our bodies as individuals and groups and as a world, it
connects our feet to the earth and inspires us to
move to her rhythms. It allows us to go further,
to include everyone, to tap into a revolutionary
and poetic energy which invites us to take the
lid off the patriarchal container, releasing more
of our wisdom, our self-love, our sexuality, our
compassion and our fierceness. Dancing is defiance. It is joyous and raging. It is contagious
and free and beyond corporate or state control.
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ountries and communities around the
world determine how and why they
are rising, bringing into their actions local
issues and contexts and their own self-determined aspirations of the change they want
to see happen as they continue to rise and
demand justice. But they also know that
they are connected to a huge and diverse
global movement that brings global solidarity and allows local issues to be made
visible not just within the national spotlight,
but also within the international context. Like
years before in many countries around the
world, the grassroots communities led the
campaigns and opened up a deeper consciousness and understanding of the many
forms of violence affecting women.”
– Monique Wilson, Director of One Billion Rising