“ Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~ Albert Einstein Let’s give three cheers for the power of creativity. Where do you find it? How do you cultivate it? What gifts does it bring to your life? Sometimes you’ll hear people lament that they are terrible dancers or can’t paint, or don’t have a [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Stacey Butcher! Wow…what a dancing journey this has been the last few years, dancing with the unknown moment by moment. This is where we apply our practice on the dance floor to our everyday lives. After the pandemic hit, of course, everything changed for us. Like everyone, [...]
“ Your belief system saturates the space around you.” ~ Aaron Huey Let’s talk about beliefs today. How do you form them? What’s your process? Do they just appear and suddenly exist somehow? The whole concept of belief is an interesting one when you get right down to it. They’re an interesting sort [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Melissa Michaels, Golden Bridge, and Golden Girls Global! The world needs us to mobilize. Did you know that Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is a badass dancer? Zelensky Dancing! He won Dancing with the Stars in 2006. One never knows where the dancing path will lead you! How is the [...]
“ Only entropy comes easy.” ~ Anton Chekhov Well, Spring is springing no matter how you slice it. What do the longer days inspire in you? I suppose you may live somewhere that’s still covered in snow, but here in the Bay Area it’s nothing but sunshine. The hills are green, plants are [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on The Edwardian Ball! The Edwardian Ball 2022 will be celebrating its Spring Revival at the Regency Ballroom SF on Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2, from 8 pm to 2 am. For information, photo gallery, videos, performer line-up, to buy tickets, and more, please visit https://www.edwardianball.com/ Mark Metz describes the Ball, “In [...]
“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Do you ever avoid talking about the elephant in the room? Well, I’m not going to do that today. The fact is, we are one big global family, and some of our kinfolk are [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Karina Pais! Since I was a little girl, I remember always being drawn to dancing. It was my way of expressing something more profound than the words I could pronounce at that early age. I felt so connected with dancing that I thought that was what [...]
“ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain Do you ever get so busy you [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Nine Mountain Retreat! Who We Are Nine Mountain was built about 30 years ago by the creative community of Earthdance Creative Living Project, a radical collaborative of improvisers, makers and artists. The unique, towering post-and-beam building was originally designed to be a shared home for members of the [...]
