Veterans find comfort through dance
The workshops aren't formal training or official therapy, But Baca believes that even simple gestures - a bend, a turn, a step - can help those who served ease the wars inside.
In this image, from a workshop at DANY Studios in Manhattan, Vietnam war veteran Everett Cox rests on the studio floor. "I don't think I've ever learned to relax. It's an alien concept to me," Cox said. "And yet I'm with these dancers who seem relaxed in every movement."
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All photos taken Sept. 17, 2013 in New York, N.Y.
"They really need to find some alternatives, alternatives to psychotherapy, alternatives to pills, alternatives to hospitalization, and they need to give people a chance to dance."
Dance, he said, couldn't feel more different.
"There's a gentleness to it that can be a little unnerving. It's about contact with other people in a nonviolent way. With no intent to harm."