{"id":301,"name":"L. Martina Young","url":"http:\/\/www.apoeticbody.com","description":"L. Martina Young is a dance artist, writer-orator, myth scholar,  Somatics Educator. Originally from Los Angeles, Martina is a multi-year NEA Fellow (1983-85) and recipient of Nevada\u2019s Governor\u2019s Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts (2008). For 22 years she has maintained a radical hospitality space at her artist loft in the arts district of downtown Reno, NV bringing community residents, civic leaders, and artists together. Her essay, \u201cFLOOD\/Mayim, Mayim\u201d\u2014on her aesthetic process of unpacking the mythic imagery of \u2018water\u2019 for her 1997 community-interactive performance work FLOOD\u2014was published in Mark Curtis\u2019s book, One Of A Kind: The People and Places That Make Reno The Biggest Little City in the World (2019). Martina was chosen by Stevie Wonder to be the solo dancer in his 1983 music video, Ribbon in the Sky. She\u2019s also the soloist in Julie Dash\u2019s 1977 award-winning film, Four Women, which she choreographed to Nina Simone\u2019s searing song of the same title.","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/younglmartina\/author\/younglmartina\/","slug":"younglmartina","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78daa05d4ed8d5ce6cb194a1c01f5d7709b2e30c1d416f1b34cc66aaae553a72?s=24&d=blank&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78daa05d4ed8d5ce6cb194a1c01f5d7709b2e30c1d416f1b34cc66aaae553a72?s=48&d=blank&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78daa05d4ed8d5ce6cb194a1c01f5d7709b2e30c1d416f1b34cc66aaae553a72?s=96&d=blank&r=g"},"meta":{"lasso_hide_tour":[]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/younglmartina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/younglmartina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}