Dance Diplomacy - DanceMotion USA

Joel Sule Adams: Dance is universal all over the world. At some point, we're all doing similar things and speaking through our bodies to tell our story. 

Lauren Michelle Taylor: I think people can understand gestures and strength and love or softness. I think those are sort of universal themes that are to be explored.

Americans are open. We have a heart for people and experiencing other people and other ways. Even for me, I'm Liberian-American.

My mother's from Liberia, my father is African-American. Being American is so many different things, and being able to share that with the world to show them, like, woah, they're just as diverse as we are. Just finding that connection is really powerful.

Quilet Rarang: Most of the time, it's hard to talk to someone who doesn't have the same language, so through movement, you feel it, physically you understand
each other and it's easier to communicate that way.

Elizabeth Frotte: Being with people and sharing something special like dance or art can really change people's perceptions. You're actually getting to teach people,
we're getting to interact with them, we're getting to share dancing and I think it's a really good chance for us to share what we're about as just the average citizen of the United States and get to see what they're about.

Joel Sule Adams: Our biggest joy may come from being able to work with the different the communities within the different countries that [we're gonna meet].

Otis Donovan Herring: Just being open to your notions, just going and being like all right, I'm here, I'm ready,I'm open to receive and to give as much as I can.