Healing Rape Through Performance Art

Glenn Weikert

‘Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth — not some big truth that belongs to everybody, but the get down and personal kind, the what’s-happening-in-me-right-now kind of truth. We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.’
~Gabrielle Roth

Glenn co-founded Archedream for Humankind to heal trauma through dance and performance. He shares the creation of ‘Jessica’s Story’ about one of the dancers who was raped & how she experienced healing through writing the script & leading the performance of her own story. Glenn explains how ‘Jessica’s Story’ toured detention and education centres across the USA and the cathartic healing that ensued.