It is my great pleasure to publish an interview series with Frankie Martinez, filmed last year in New York.
Mr. Martinez is widely regarded as one of the most innovative Latin dancers of our generation, but I’m certain that the video is no less inspiring to those who don’t practice dance. Because, I believe, it is about a person’s earnest life journey to purse the values he believes in.
There are 3 videos in total and each one lasts about 40 mins. This is the 3rd one and it follows the nominal questions below. However, the content is organically linked among different parts.
- What do you try to express/achieve when you perform?
- Do you find dancing challenging?
- If you hadn’t become a dancer, what would you’ve become?
- Have celebrity and popularity been a discomfort to you?
Notes on this interview series
It may seem that my long-term journey around the world is identical to my ‘listening to the world’ project, which includes this website. However, when I launched this website and started filming interviews with people, I actually aimed to start a life-long (hopefully) project of ‘listening’. That is, I wanted to incorporate the activity of constantly exposing myself to others (both animate and inanimate beings around the world) as I grow older, and I wanted to somehow document the process.
So, although this interview itself may not seem to correlate with ‘traveling around the world’, it still is a significant outcome of my entire journey. Plus, as a lover of Latin dance, I was very happy to be able to relate to many lessons that Mr. Martinez was so kind to share.
