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The Future is Dance:
Flow With Jimin
by Michelle Z.
Every ARMY can agree that watching Bosnia-Herzegovina gain a better
Park Jimin dance is a breathtaking chance of a future through dance.
experience. His two years as a top Much like dance was a gateway
student at a contemporary dance for Jimin to be an Idol, Mindleaps
school created a powerful dancer uses dance as the foundation
with clean and fluid movements; for a life outside of the poverty
every turn of the head or angling line. Many of these children have
of a body part is a picture-perfect been displaced and stunted
moment. With his constant hardwork from a normal life as a child by
and dedication to be the best for being out of school and greatly
ARMYS, it is clear that dancing will suffering from psychological
always be his first love. consequences like trauma,
depression and hopelessness. This
That is why for the month of October, is why Mindleaps created a three-
in celebration of Jimin’s birthday, phase model - Dance, vocational
One in an ARMY teamed up with training and youth advancement- to
Jimin Global to support MindLeaps. carefully transition these kids to a
MindLeaps is a humanitarian life they were always supposed to
organization that helps “street have.
children” in Rwanda, Guinea, and
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