Current Event #1

The title of the current event is "Is Appropriation the Same as Stealing and Why Is It Happening More Now?". This article was about how in today's society people are becoming more Internet based. In the dance world, this can pose a problem. Many choreographers are able to go on websites like YouTube and look at choreography and costumes other people have created and just use it without permission of the owner. This affects all dancers and choreographers such as Kamali who had the costumes from one of her performances, "Devotion" take from her. This is a negative event and is not doing anything good for the dance world. I think that this event will have long term effects. I personally don;t think it will be solved anytime soon because many people don't even consider dance a sport and probably wouldn't even think to do anything about this issue. This issue does affect me because I am a dancer and have videos of my dance team on YouTube. My team has had songs that were taken and used without permission. From this article I learned that this is an actual issue. I also learned that nothing is being done about it. The last thing that I learned is that dance choreography used to be based on art, but now has more to do with what the person sees on the computer.

http://www.dancemagazine.com/blogs/wendy/3694