This week's Monday Love Insight is from Cathy Ryan and Open Floor! At the age of 19, after an intensive and wonderful two year’s actor training at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin I spent many years working as an actor. I worked with Philippe Gaulier, Theatre De Complicite, Theatre Du Soleil and [...]
“Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.” ~ Joyce Meyer Remember to breathe! How many times have you heard that advice? How often do you take it? Breath is one of those things that’s easy to not think about. Right up there with gravity [...]
Happy New Year, Dancers! I want to tell you about Believe Music Heals, which award-winning singer/songwriter/voice coach Essence Goldman launched to transform lives through music. This is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing healing and hope through music to those who need it most, offering programs to people experiencing hardship and distress and those with chronic [...]
“ Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.” ~ Raquel Cepeda How often do you stop to think about the people who are your supporters in one way or another? If you’re contributing creatively to society somehow, then you probably have a constellation of folks who either support or encourage or [...]
This week's spotlight feature is on Brooke Johnston & Conscious Dancer's inner workings! Hey everyone! My name is Brooke, and I'm Mark's writer/editor! I help out behind the scenes with some of the Monday Love particulars, including this section right here. If you've been reading Monday Love for a minute, you might have noticed [...]
“ The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” ~ Albert Einstein There’s nothing like the turning of the calendar page to the New Year to make you wonder about the nature of time. Last week I spared you the bother of another year-end recap, so this week I [...]
“ Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness ” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. What do you know, just like that, it’s the last Monday Love newsletter of the year! (special holiday edition, a day late just like the post office or the garbage truck.) I’m sure you are being inundated with [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Adam Barley & ZeroOne! The Story You don’t need to know this story in order to dive in and use ZeroOne as a practice, and you certainly don’t need to understand the exquisite mathematical pattern that is its ‘operating system’, but in case you’re curious, here’s what [...]
“ This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.” ~ Margaret Atwood Here we go again! It’s the countdown to the shortest day of the year up [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Brietta Leader & WildCore! My story highlights the memories, travels, communities and studies that led me to my path as a healing artist and conscious dance pioneer. Some of my earliest memories were choreographing dances and bossing all my little cousins around to perform a Thanksgiving show [...]
