Episode Seven: Shaping Identity Through Dance w/ Kelila Weiner

The Engaged Core: A Dance Podcast

Mar 9 2021 • 30 mins

Kelila shares how the many lessons learn inside her dance class helped to shape her identity and leadership style as a choreographer and co-director of Spirit of the Creative (Tufts Hip Hop Dance Team).

Kelila Weiner started her dance journey at Joy of Motion Dance Center. During her high school years, she was a member of HYPE: The Company and served as  Co-Captain for the Bomb Squad at School Without Walls. Kelila's passion and commitment for dance landed her a captain role in Hype: The Company in her senior year of High school and she has continued her leadership and creativity while dancing with the Spirit of the Creative and Turbo Dance Companies at Tufts University, where she is senior double majoring in Psychology and Anthropology.

“Dancing is both an individual and communal activity in a way that I feel nothing else is” -Kelila Weiner, college student/dancer/choreographer

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