The global statistic is shocking and bears repeating: one woman in three will beaten or raped in her lifetime. To fight back, V-Day founder and playwright Eve Ensler imagined a world-wide movement. Says she, "Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, contagious, it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dancing insists we take up space, we go there together in community. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING. With infectious music and lyrics from Tena Clark, amazing vocals by a talented group of V-Girls and Debbie Allen’s bold choreography, Break The Chain is the anthem that will call up one billion to rise.” Laura Turner Seydel led the efforts to produce our day, which began with speeches from the capitol steps, and the Chelko Foundation commissioned a statue, One Woman Rising, which overlooks Freedom Parkway from the hill above Moreland Avenue.
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