Ep. 47: Megan Lowe, The Dance Kitty

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Today, I'm presenting you with a conversation with Megan Lowe, a Bay Area dancer, choreographer, performer, aerialist, singer, songwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and administrator of Chinese and Irish descent.
A couple of weeks ago, my partner and I attended a Megan Lowe Dances performance. It was at the ODC Theater and it was called Gathering Pieces of Peace.
There were four mindblowingly skilled dancers, all of mixed -race identity, and the performance was about reckoning with the pieces of your identity, making peace with those pieces.
As a person who is not of mixed -race identity, but an immigrant in a different context here in the US, than I was back where I came from, I can always relate to having your identity be fractured, be scattered, having to gather up the pieces of it.
I was delighted to notice that in Gathering Pieces of Peace there was a thread of conversation about tattoos throughout the entire performance.
When it was over, the friend who invited my partner and I to the performance turned to me and said, Megan would be perfect for your podcast. And I said, I would love that. we got connected and we made it happen and here is our conversation.
Megan and I talk about tattoos of course, but also belonging, identities, community building, relationship creating, and such.
You can find Megan Lowe on her website at:
https://www.meganlowedances.com/
And on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/mlowedancekitty/
You can connect with me, Micah Riot, as well as see my tattoo art on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/micahriot/
Micah's website is www.micahriot.com
The podcast is hosted on Buzzsprout but truly lives in the heart of Micah's website at:
https://www.micahriot.com/ink-medicine-podcast/

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1. Identity and Meaning (00:00:00)

2. Tattoos as Personal Expression (00:16:36)

3. First Tattoo Experience and Painful Areas (00:20:47)

4. Tattoos, Heritage, and Self-Expression (00:26:20)

5. Building Community Through Art (00:41:33)

6. Art and Community Building (00:48:10)

7. Importance of Cats in My Life (01:01:56)