Art Can Open Doors
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The arts often spur shared experiences, which can open doors between people.
When very different people share the same art experience, it can spur conversation and understanding between them. For Willis "Bing" Davis, that's one of art's super powers.
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Art Can Open Doors
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When very different people share the same art experience, it can spur conversation and understanding between them. For Willis "Bing" Davis, that's one of art's super powers.
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- One thing, you have two people experiencing a similar kind of experience.
Be it a Dayton dance concert or a Dayton Ballet concert or a symphony performance.
They bring not only their unique experience to it, but they're also experiencing something together.
So, just that fact alone, you've got a starting point.
You got a point, 'cause here you both are standing, just having experienced the same thing.
You can discuss the instruments, the sound, the expression, and also, even how it was received and relate it to yourself, to your culture, both contemporary and historically.
And then you start to see the commonality and the similarities.
And if you have any kind of openness at all, that starts to blossom.
You start to see that, hey, we are more alike than different.
We're more alike than different.
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