TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 7月21日 03時11分

It’s 1:13 p.m. on a Sunday in Los Angeles, and four dozen women in knee pads are snaked around one another on the floor in the fetal position. One, in leggings printed with Billy Murray’s face, stands and watches over the rest. She calls out instructions and affirmations between verses of the self-love anthem of 2002, @クリスティーナ・アギレラ’s “Beautiful.” “Put your arms around yourself,” she shouts across the #dance studio. “There’s only one person just like you.” Angela Trimbur, a 37-year-old actor and the founder and captain of the @lacitymunicipaldancesquad, is leading one of her troupe’s monthly community workshops at the Live Arts Los Angeles studio. The eight other members of the squad are curled up on the floor with the crowd. The group's ethos runs counter to everything one might expect of a crew composed mostly of actors, comedians and models dancing in #LosAngeles. They love to perform, and their performances draw a crowd. But in a town and in industries that can feel overwhelmingly lonely, high-pressure and competitive—particularly for women, and particularly leading up to the #MeToo era—the group is more about creating bonds within itself and building up its members than putting on a show. Like so many women, their bodies come under scrutiny in their careers and daily lives. But in this studio they can move freely together. Trimbur puts the squad’s average level at around a six out of 10. But through exercises that range from wacky to earnest, the women help each other and their workshop attendees to shake off anxieties and take risks in a supportive environment. “If you mess up," Trimbur tells them, "who cares?” Members of the L.A. City Municipal Dance Squad are just some of the extraordinary women who TIME is visiting on a cross-country road trip this summer. Read more at TIME.com/women-across-america. Photographs by Bella Newman (@lafillebella) for TIME

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