Poverty Distorts Technique and Arts

A friend once said that it is in distortion that a certain art is made beautiful. In saying this, it is assumed that distortion is meant and purposely done. But what if it is inevitable? What if the distortion is not meant because it is just the way the situation is for a lot of people.

Lately, I have been conducting Dance workshops for poor children in the neighboring towns in Davao City. In as much as I would be thrilled by the workshop’s impact on me, I have realized that my presence to these children was a greater impact to them.

I saw how they could have the “LINES” of a ballerina. The “Footwork” of a competing dance sport dancer and the “Deepness” of a popular choreographer. The only thing that would dismay them from being these good as I have mentioned is poverty.

It is a sad fact. Poverty has always been the boundary of most of Filipinos to go aboard different Arts Forms.

But Poverty is also the reason why a lot of artist becomes ingénues. The idea of trying something cheaper and being resourceful makes one artist different from the other.