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FROM DAN LEVEN IN WEST STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Hi, my name is Daniel Leven and I direct both Shake Your SoulŪ Dance Teacher Trainings and Expressive Movement Therapy trainings at Phoenix Rising in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. The Shake Your Soul training is a dual certification in this discipline as well as Kripalu DansKinetics which I co-founded over 15 years ago. Check the events page for more info on this training. This work is my passion, integrating my love for dance, creative expression and world music. You can also check out my trainings by visiting my website, www.pryt.com .
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FROM BARBARA MINTZ, WEST COAST USA
My website is:
www.rightangle.com/bhava
I teach a Holistic dance class which combines Yoga, modern dance,
mudras, Mind-body integration techniques, belly dance and movement
meditation.
I also offer private movement healing sessions.
I offer performances and lecture demonstrations in Balinese and Indian
dance (Odissi).
My email is: bhava_dance@hotmail.com
Blessings and joy in dance!
Barbara Mintz
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from Beth Rigby, DansKinetics teacher in San Diego,
wow! just visited your site. awesome information.
i've newly created GLOBAL DANCE FOR HEALING SELF AND PLANET and will be certifying teachers beginning in September in San Diego. GLOBAL DANCE is wildly fun, interactive, synergistic combination of yoga, dance and global healing visualizations. It's dance for non-dancers, freeing body, mind and spirit in an easy cathartic process. I've been leading Kripalu DansKinetics throughout the United States the past 6 years and have newly developed this from meditation vision. I am a also a Program Director at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA, newly relocated to San Diego. i also lead retreats to Sedona/Grand Canyon, AZ. May i list on your site and/or announce my new dance process? below are some details:
Spectacular week of healing body & soul with breathtaking red rock scenery, hiking to energy vortex sites, transformational Global Dance, Kripalu Hatha Yoga, native ceremonies, with plenty of free time for rest and contemplation in majestic Sedona, Arizona with fun-filled day trip to Grand Canyon! Visit www.yogameetsdance.com With Beth Rigby, top-rated Program Director from the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, certified Kripalu DansKinetics and Hatha Yoga Instructor, student of Gabrielle Roth and Soto Zen Meditation. (Trips sell out about 3 months in advance).
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Poem from Beth Rigby, DansKinetics teacher in San Diego,
The Dance
Dancing clumsily between two worlds passionate physicality non-attached spirituality craving affection craving freedom craving where is the balance just a hoped for vision? or the purpose of incarnating in human form daring to dance and delight myself in one e x t r e m e or the other a calidescope of physical ecstasy an ocean of blissful spiritual experience with no b o u n d a r y fear pokes its face into the mirror of my mind when I focus on imagined future events the pain of attachment when the music of the dance stops serving to remind me to shift my attention inward to the stillpoint the present moment where all love abides. Beth Rigby****************************************************************
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FROM BERTI IN SANTA MONICA
Hi!
If you live in the Santa Monica, CA (West LA) area there is a wonderful
Women's Movement Support Group that happens every Tuesday morning. For more
information please call (310) 820-4338.
Thanx for all the wonderful information!
In joy,
Berti
EMAIL: JoyBerti@aol.com
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INTRODUCING: JANIS CLAXTON---"SPIRIT IN MOTION" IN AUSTRALIA
Janis Claxton,
creator of Spirit In Motion, has been teaching
dance for twenty-two years. She has inspired many audiences,
students and dancers with her choreography and teaching, showing
dancers pathways to alternative forms of dance and leading people
who may never have thought it was possible to find the joy of
dancing. With her early training in classical and modern dance,
her studies with Eric Hawkins and his dance company members, and
her strong working partnerships with musicians and dance teachers
she has created a style that bridges traditional dance and its
more alternative forms. And the accessibility and constancy of
her classes has brought professional dancers and those who have
never danced before together.
It's her lifetime commitment to and passion for dance that has
meant that wherever she goes, whether it is France, Japan, Sydney
or Northern NSW, (her current place of work) her studios are full,
her classes packed and her waiting lists long for her courses. We
interviewed her during the hectic last weeks of SIMTIC
2000, a three month alternative dance training as
she directs 20 students for their final performance. And this is
just weeks before she heads off to Bristol taking her unique
teaching style to Europe once more. ......
link to interview---- http://users.bigpond.net.au/dcorbet/proximity/v_three/v3e2a1.htm
email--- spiritinmotion@onetel.net.uk
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MONICA FAVAND AND SACRED PLACES WORKSHOPS --L.A.
A driving, beautiful, textural blend of guitar, percussion, & voice accompanies our improvisational workshop for people with or without any dance background. Join us for a magical evening of exploration. Find yourself using movement to explore your personal expression, communicate with others, deepen your sense of self, and have fun! We welcome anyone who would like to find a new piece of community and a renewed relationship with their own bodies.
The workshop begins with a breathing meditation
focusing on releasing tension and deepening internal awareness,
and flows into several improvisational structures that bring
people into dances with partners and with larger groups. Multi-media
elements such as slides and sound/text loops are used to create
an other-worldy environment
and enhance this transformative experience.
Join us to have fun, to meet others, to dance, to express, to release!
This movement workshop is based upon the Group Motion Workshop, created by Manfred Fischbeck and Brigitta Hermann at the Group Motion space in Philadelphia. Monica Favand spent four seasons as a member of the Group Motion Company, and is the artistic director of TRIP Dance Theatre, a non-profit performing company of several choreographers/multi-media artists in Los Angeles - who are currently focusing on creating a greater sense of ritual and community with workshops and ritual in performance through their "Sacred Spaces" project. Ms. Favand began her training at the Baltimore School for the Arts and receiver her B.F.A. in dance from Temple University, in Philadelphia. She has performed her work throughout the US and Europe and in South America, and has taught dance on both coasts in such places as the La Boca/Sushine Mission in Los Angeles, the Los Feliz Jewish Community Center, Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, among others.
Led by Monica Favand & Jodi Petlin
Live Music from Charlie Campagna (Guitar/Ambient Looping & Atmospheres), Ron Bartlett (Percussion/Chanting), Paul Berolzheimer (Percussion), Eric Potter (Guitar/Electronic Looping) & guests.
Saturdays, 6 - 8:00 p.m.@ LA Venue, 1463 Tamarind Avenue in Hollywood
call 323-468-9938 for the weekly schedule update
e-mail us at tripdance@prodigy.net for more information
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INTRODUCING JOSEPH GALATA---HEALING THRU ART IN RENO, NEVADA.
My name is Dr.Joseph Andrejchak Galata of Reno, Nevada. I am a Retired
Representative to the Social Economic Council of the United Nations, a
faculty member at the state university in the Medical Clinic with the U.S.
Department of Labor Job Corps program. I design Performing and Creative Art
therapy programs using dance, storytelling, music, drama, with adolescents
ages 16-25 of diverse cultures, races, nationalities, religions and spiritual
paths for those affilicted with substance abuse, street violence, sexual and
family dysfunctional behaviors. I train counselors, nurses, doctors,
administrators, therapists, etc. in multi-cultural counseling, substance
abuse counseling and the use of the performing and creative arts as therapy
and healing processes. I am the director of CREATIVE COMBUSTION, a performing
arts group receiving major funding from National and State agencies. The
company is comprised of street gang kids with substance abuse problems. We
travel the country performing Anti-Gang Dance, Anti-Drug Dance, AIDS Dance,
Anti-Animal and Child abuse dance, multicultual storytelling, etc. The
purpose of the program is to TEACH ADOLESCENTS THEY HAVE A CHOICE IN LIFE, BE
SELF CREATIVE OR SELF DESTRUCTIVE, BUT YOU CAN'T BE BOTH.
I am the Director of Lanakila Consulting Productions which produces
professional television, video, stage and seminar productions on using
spirituality, culture, psychology and the creative /performing arts for
healing and education. Recent productions include THE SHUFFLE OF SHOES LEFT
BEHIND, an oral history interview with adults who were children in the WW11
concentration camps and who have used the arts to heal from the traumas.
Another production THE JOURNEY OF THE STORIES was filmed in the People's
Republic of China about Chinese dance, music and storytellng. I am the
founder and director of the Reno-Tahoe Sacred Dance program using dance and
music and rituals of the Western and Easterns and ethnic religions/spiritual
paths. I serve on numerous international, national, state Boards for
organizations concentrating on the media, arts, education and spirituality.
Well... thanks again for the opportunity to post a profile and hopefully
connect with others in the organization. Hope to enjoy my participation and
be of service also...
EMAIL: JGalata@aol.com
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FROM ERICA ESSNER IN SAN FRANCISCO
Greetings everyone:
Introducing the Erica Essner Performance CoOp (www.eecop.org),
a comprehensive website featuring Upcoming events, workshops,
colloborators, and background information.
Check it out! www.eecop.org
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SACRED
DANCE
www.sacreddance.com
Dr. Irene Lamberti is the producer, writer
and choreographer of the Spirit In Action television
series and the home video series Aerobic Prayer,
seen nationally on public television. The programs and her new
book, Spirit In Action, are based on the
moving forms of meditation and prayer seen in a variety of
cultures, such as, African, Haitian, Polynesian, Celtic, Latin,
Native American, East Indian, and many more.
Dr. Lamberti has studied many indigenous
forms of dance throughout her life. Her passionate interest has
been in the way that dance integrates and embodies the
dancer’s personal sense of communion with the Divine. In her
television programs, book and videos she encourages the reader
and viewers to let the body become a vehicle of prayer.
In addition to her work as producer, author,
and teacher, Dr. Lamberti has been a practicing chiropractor for
20 years. This background gives her a uniquely well-qualified
ability to distill the spiritual qualities of the dances she
teaches, while making them simple and safe for non-dancers to
explore.
Dr. Lamberti is a member of the Sacred Dance Guild and leads retreats and seminars around the country. She splits her time living in Idaho with her family and San Francisco.
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TCELEBRATING EARTH SPIRIT
---FRED CASSELMAN'S EARTH ECHO GALLERIES
FRED (FROM FRAMINGHAM, MA) HAS CREATED AND ARRANGED FOR THE WEB A WONDERFUL SELECTION OF HIS DIGITAL IMAGES PLUS VARIED MUSIC, POETRY, AND TEXT. THERE IS ALSO A SECTION FOR SUBMISSIONS. HERE YOU CAN SEE DEVOTION TO CREATIVITY AS HEALING AND JOYOUS PURSUIT, AND ITS POWER TO RECONNECT US TO THE SOURCE.
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classes and concerts in
spiritual dance - to awaken the subtle, primary
consciousness that pervades every cell in the body -
http://www.realizationcenter.com
JudithBlackstone,Woodstock,NY
realization@ulster.net
Judith Blackstone is accepting applicants for the Teacher
Training/Certification Program in Subtle Self Work. The training in
Marin County, California (near San Francisco) focuses on the Subtle Self
Work meditation techniques. The training in Woodstock, NY focuses on
the movement aspect of Subtle Self Work. For a free brochure, call
(914) 679-7005, email realization@ulster.net or visit her website at
http://www.realizationcenter.com.
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Arts & Healing Network
PMB 612, 3450 Sacramento St.
San Francisco, CA 94118
ahn@artheals.org
http://www.artheals.org
Danny Hobson ---SF,CA
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NEW YORK CITY
From: "raphael diaz" <earthconcert@hotmail.com> AKA Raphael Octavius
About PanEuRhythmy:
The PanEuRhythmy was given by the Bulgarian illuminate Peter Deunov, known
by his 40,000 followers by his spiritual name, Beinsa Douno. It is based on
sacred geometry and sound, color, light, harmonics, etc. There are twenty
eight movements in the PanEuRhythmy. The "Master" Douno called it the key to
his teachings. His work is recognized as part of the body of perennial
wisdom teachings which have been preparing us for the upcoming transition in
the next dozen years.
Beinsa Douno, just prior to leaving his physical body in 1944, said that his
teaching was to be safeguarded for 45 years, and that it would prove useful
as a blessingway into the Age of Brotherhood, which he came to promote.
Immediately following his physical departure, the Communist regime entered
the eastern European scene, and the study of his teachings was forbidden
until the liberation of Bulgaria in 1989, 45 years later...
The PanEuRhythmy is the first part of a tryptich comprised of the Rays of
the Sun and the Pentagram. Today, many thousands gather in the mountains
near Sofia in the month of August to bless the world by the powerful
energies which are invoked and evoked through these sacred dances. The
PanEuRhythmy is not only good for the dancers, it is a way of bringing the
new solar blessings down into the heart of the mother, and out into the
world, the solar system and beyond. Called variously the "Dance of the
Devas", "Dancing Meditation for the 21st Century", etc., it is unique. The
PanEuRhythmy is a dance of partnership, couples moving counterclockwise
around the circle, from the center of which comes the beautiful music
composed by Beinsa Douno. It takes forty-five minutes.SEE Current Events for the next meeting of PanEuRhythmy in Central Park
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POETRY ...(from a Virtual Dance Festival Collaborator in Pennsylvania, Patty Fox Dikeman)
The spirit is sitting waiting for the day of moving.
As the sadness trickles down
and pours out, there is room for happiness and laughter.
When the body is caught in an urban life of what the mind thought it should
do,
I have found myself in a dream of dance.
A time and a place for the core to open and air itself .***************************************
The space between only makes sense to me if I am moving
The words have fallen behind
A place where emotions mix freely
A time where the heart roams.
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I live in Pennsylvania. I am a mother of two. I have a BA from Penn State ( "Dance as
Art & Science" was the liberal studies option 1985) Recently, I am sharing
my dance experience with non dancers in movement experiment classes. a
sister in dance, Patty Fox Dikeman Chicloud@aol.com
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About Lisa Alpine and Dance Weaver ... I have been teaching dance as a healing art form for ten years, though I have been dancing since I was born.
Dancing art ... I tell my students, "Dancing is an expressive art form you create from your core. Use your body to paint feelings, your muscles to sculpt movement, and your senses to translate music." I help them discover the trust that their dance is perfect and the feelings they have spinning through their blood and bones is right for them.
Infinite possibilities...My workshops, group and individual class programs reflect my own exploration into the infinite possibilities of movement so they are always changing and evolving. Check out the schedule page on my website for Summer/Fall course offerings in California at my home studio in Marin County and in France & New Hampshire. Please contact me if you would like a more detailed course description or a free copy of my "Journey Into Movement" newsletter. Lisa Alpine, Dance Weaver * lisa@danceweaver.com · www.danceweaver.com
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Laurie Sylla, onewae@gateway.net Vernon, CT
Most of my work is with my husband, Abdoulaye Sylla, a former member of Les Ballets Africains, Guinea's national company. Abdoulaye teaches dance, drum, song, and the cultural context in which they occur. We also have a performing group, Fotoba. We also work with other artists, most of whom are based in NY, CT, and Massachusetts.
We believe that dance, is, in its essence, spiritual. The drum has a magic ability to reach your soul, and African dance is about the communication and exchange of energy between the drummer, the dancer, and the earth. Through our classes we build community and foster intercultural understanding. We believe that drum and dance are mediums through which you can touch your joy. Drumming and dancing together creates community. Communities must be rooted in the spirit if they are to be sustained. I hope we will find some opportunities to collaborate.
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Isabeau Vollhardt,
l.ac. CinSwan@aol.com
--- www.cinnabarswan.com
Ashland,Oregon ---on Qi Gung
there's a few different applications of qi gong that might be of interest to
dancers who are incorporating their art into shamanic learning/teaching,
however, with all of them i would include in the class not only exercises
with one-on-one supervision/correction but also some of the theory behind
qigong (this would include some mention of meridian pathways, five phase
theory aka five element theory, and the organ systems as described in
oriental medicine).
in both workshops, i'd like to touch on not only the health benefits of
qigong breathing, but also different ways that qigong can be used to open up
awareness to alternative realities (experiencing nature in a different way,
especially the wind; meeting spirit guides which in some asian shamanic
traditions are referred to as celestial masters)................photo by Elizabeth Ellingson
For complete discussion and poem see
entries in dancespirit.htm
, the Writings
section of this site.
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"flicker" --Norman Lowrey
My masks will be in exhibit late March through early April
next spring,
but other than that nothing else is scheduled yet. I've been
touring
with 3 mask/ceremonies, "riverdream through us, A River
Sounding/Listening Ceremony in Seven Dreamings for Singing/Listening
Masks, River Sounds & Listener/Celebrants," "Spirit
Dreams: Stories of
the Singing Masks for Singing Masks, Narrator, River Sounds and
Electronics," and "Spirit Talk: Conversations with the
Singing Masks for
Singing Masks, Nature Soundscape & Glossolalia".
All of these fit within your category of events (including
movement -
"Spirit Dream" movement in dream state) having to do
with community and
spiritual practice in that they are explorations of spiritual
connections between human and trans-human through first of all
listening
deeply to river sounds and the language of non-human (I prefer
trans-human) be-ings.
I can "do" these in virtually any venue, though since
they're
participatory and not traditionally performance oriented, stage/audience
arrangements are less satisfactory. I should also have at least
one more
work by next spring that's a further exploration of, as the poet
Francis
Ponge put it, "The Voice of Things."
Norman Lowrey http://www.users.drew.edu/~nlowrey,
and I can be reached at
nlowrey@drew.edu. New
Jersey
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In the vastness of this vision i again find myself asking
questions
around how we can make it real, grounded, fruitful and
ongoing. It
would be great to connect with the Bay Area artists involved...lets
make a meeting date.
I am currently in the midst of the the Bay Area BodyCartography
project, an inclusive, site specific improvisational research
project.
We are reclaiming urban space as play/ sacred space..we are
investigating the relationship of our bodies to specific
locations,
"mapping" to include all our levels of perception.
Bringing multi
leveled and abled/disabled dancers together in public space to
create
art/share process.
Removing ourselves from the commodofication of dance in
theatres and
simply doing the work.
And more from Olive Bieringa:
I am sorry to hear that the response here(SF) has been so
poor. Maybe the divide between the
"professional/dancey" dancers and the "ecstatic"
dancers is uncomfortable. I have just returned from
teaching 8o people at the Harbin Hotsprings
Unconditional Dance Festival where Contact Improv is
mixed in 5 Rhythms, African, Olivia Corson's
BodyTales.
There are alot of people very week at barefoot
boogies, contact jams, dancing out in the
wilderness...all in the name of spirit. It is
California. I guess my question is who is your target
audience? And maybe there is too much going on here
already, even if it is not focussed discurvsively.
In terms of my work in relation to the festival...it
would be great to read some more. There is no question
of profoundity in the moving body and inspiring that
spirit in other people in play, be it through contact
with another human being, truly finding the trust, the
support, the ability to support others from where you
are, in the present and fly and fall. Bringing this
sense of self out into the wider world to meet the
trees, the streets, the other people who live here in
this sense of improvisation/play inspires huge amounts
of wonder and freedom. I beleive the work we are
making is revolutionary in its focus and
structure...and that feeds spirit...not if we/i fit
comfortably into any definition of 'ecsatic '
dance....but i am all for redefining life.
The BodyCartography Project is an ongoing performance
research project
based in the SF/Bay Area and performing where ever
they travel. The touring structure is potentially a
facillitated community project; collaboration with
local artists in research, labs, site specific events
and theater performance.
They can be reached by voice mail at 415-541-5644,
website
www.bodycartography.org, and by e-mail at
olivebee@yahoo.com, tvogel@dnai.com, sambe@dnai.com.
Participants,
donations, feedback, love and appreciation welcome.
With special thanks to Image Lab, 848 Community Space,
Bodywork Central, CELL space, Integrated Arts and all
paticipants past and present.
Olive Bieringa, BodyCartography, San Francisco
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..The hosting network idea is definitely along the right lines and this is the kind of thing when presented in a palatable way should work to draw people together without stepping on their toes about the unique integrity of their work. Such an idea would allow performer/teachers to share a loosely defined community that centered around pulling events together several times a year. This happens already and even with some co-operative elements, but the festival concept is lacking and what you get is a smorgisbord(sp?) of classes, all distinct and separate.
The angle that inevitably works is the one centered on dance making itself and not formal issues of technique and tradition. What are the sources for making a dance--- most serious dancers are involved with this at one time or another. As I said in our meeting, the Make-Your-Own-Dance concept or theme is absolutely the top priority in my undertaking this project. I have seen what this means to people who I consider highly spiritually evolved, and as with Native Americans, I have come to see the making of a dance(yes, perhaps just one in a lifetime) to be one of great empowerment, connection and discovery .
This is why the project has the "Dance Sources"
subtitle and this is to be the the subject that brings whomever
we end up with together. If it ends up being just a few of us and
some unknowns who just magically appear, that's fine with me. I
am sticking with this because in the long-term I know it is what
is going to work and I think this is where things are going
Steven Malkus , stevenmalkus1@prodigy.net
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Being a dancer is living a "ritual" life. Going to a dance concert is a ritual. People are dancers.
I am doing a workshop here in June "fra terra e cielo i gesti e riti sacrali" Between earth and heavan- sacred gesture and ritual. The people that find themselves in this work are dancers, people-people, professionals, physical therapists, psychotherapists, teachers etc. I do NOT do the Authentic Movement form with them. Instead I use techniques coming from a 2 and 1/2 yr. training that I have been doing 8 years in Italy and 3 in Finland...which I call Creative Movement. The eyes are open!
Marcia Plevin, Italy 106667.2252@compuserve.com
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dancers with a lot of training and professional experience
tend to have more "body wisdom" than all these trans-
personal types with their degrees(---I have one, don't tell
anyone!) Anyway dancers should be at the forefront of the body
arts movement which they are not partly because of their own
hanging back in the "we are artistes" mode...But things
are changing fast---the economic climate in the dance world
requires that dancers seek other work! With my project I am
hoping to create a model for how dancers can create this new set
of possibilities. it really is more about the process of sharing
the dance experience directly with people...though the
performances are key to bringing people to an inspired level for
such sharing...But I am working on a new model...and business is
also at the heart of it... I am truly tired of the sad situation
of dancers all struggling for the same grants...it would be one
thing if there was a lot of money available...but as Erika Essner
said to me recently "I could make more money at a bake-sale!"
The economic model was derived from my research on how
independent new age services are both drawing people and offering
decent money...With all these people offering "body-arts"
services(some of them really bogus), you would think that there
would be a place for dancers whose body knowledge is great...I
think the situation can be altered(it's evolving already on its
own) and I am trying to establish a model structure...A little re-education
is required...It's amazing how many dancers I have met think that
they have to follow the same frustrating little set of cliqueish
venues...I don't think dancers want to remain as birds in gilded
cages, especially if they are starving! And we
both know well that is not conducive to creative work!
Steven Malkus (to Colley Ballou of the Sacred Dance Guild)
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I will be going to south India (22nd March-29th March)for performances.I will be dancing in some beautiful temples like Chidambaram,Upliappan,etc(Tongue twisters,are they not ?)
Namita Bodaji
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TWO POEMS BY STEVEN MALKUS
Dance on Sand
Waves breaking clear become a white pandemonium
hissing
into beach smoothness
Eyes squint at diamond
flecks skimming to our feet Shadows on white dunes
are dark
The seagulls go by a thousand years
One sun, one blue shell
flashing from its nacreous heart---
Sand on sand, beach on beach
slow rhythms from a
Spring-green ocean
Chants from surf to spray
Footprints lost in a rising tide
A gull hovering still in a strong on-shore breeze
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The Power of Place
The child who dances within the embrace of dark Atlantic waves,
laughing at the gull overhead who laughs back....
Pour through! Wide open!
The best is yet to happen!
Feet stamping this havoc of the soul!
I'm from an old tribe
It took billions of years to make me!
I'm a seasponge, a colony of cells all in dialogue with each other, all talking at once
Antennae are sprouting from my pours and detect
Strange weather from the north and south
Dreams that shine and make you wake gasping
Body parts, minute, re-arranging themselves
Pour through me dark Atlantic!
Pour through me with the heartdrum and visions
Boom!
Eyes close---
Boom!
Eyes open again
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