Ralph Casanova, aka King Up Rock—hip hop dance pioneer, international teacher, and a community organizer with deep roots in his neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn—shares his life, art, and love for his community with host Desire Wandan. His father was a noted conga player, his mother an expert salsa dancer and Casanova was playing drums and piano at neighborhood parties by the age of five. As he grew up in the 1970s, there were hundreds of dance crews in Brooklyn developing moves distinct from those in the Bronx—and Casanova brought them out across New York City, the U.S., and, eventually, Europe as well. He has brought his unique hip-hop dance to Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. His Dollar Jams, parties that bring young people, dance veterans, and parents together to sustain and build community through dance, have been going on for decades in Bushwick.
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Welcome to All Power to the Developing, a podcast of the East Side Institute. The Institute is a center for social change efforts that reinitiate human and community development. We support, connect and partner with committed and creative activists, scholars, artists, helpers and healers all over the world. In 2003, Institute co-founders Lois Holzman and the late Fred Newman had a paper published with the title “All Power to the Developing.” This phrase captures how vital it is for all people—no matter their age, circumstance, status, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation—to grow, develop and transform emotionally, socially and intellectually if we are to have a shot at creating something positive out of the intense crises we’re all experiencing. We hope that this podcast series will show you that, far more than a slogan, “all power to the developing” is a loving activity, a pulsing heart in an all too cruel world.
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Ep.47 Dancing Toward Better Futures for the Planet
Ep.46 “Land for People, Not for Profit” How Unhoused People in Cape Town Turned an Abandoned Hospital into a Community
Ep.45 Homeless World Cup
Ep.44 Performing Peace in the Wake of War
Ep.43 Revolutionizing Relationships: Murray Dabby & Carrie Sackett on Social Therapeutic Coaching
Ep.42 Building Play Ensembles to Change the World
Ep.41 Co-Creating Our World
Ep.40 Performing Environmental Education
Ep.39 Rhymes, Beats and Development
Ep.38 Therapy for and by the People
All Power To The Developing | JUNE 2023 UPDATE
Ep.37 American History, Black Heritage and Progressive Activism
Ep.36 Theatre-Making in a Prison Community
Ep.35 Let’s Imagine Impossible Worlds Together
Ep.34 Playworlds of Imagination and Development
Ep.33 What’s So Funny About Growth and Development?
Ep.32 The Efficiency of Play: A powerful modality for inclusion
Ep.30 Identity, Trauma and Development in Taiwan
Ep.29 Performance of a Lifetime: Developing Leaders Through Play
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