This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is on Fred Sugerman and Medicine Dance! Faith Feeling After playing The Wheel by Snowpoet and Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson (hot tips, here, Relatives, if you do not know these tunes) at the beginning of a session with a client this morning, we paused. I asked, as I do, “Is there [...]
“Any time, any day,You can hear the people say,That love is blind, well, I don't know but I say love is kind...” ~ Paul McCartney (Today's note is an excerpt from My Life in the Beats of Wax, an analog memoir...) Grand Junction had one primary record store, an establishment called Mazucca’s on Main Street [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is on Phoenix OneSong and Dancing Freedom! My name is Phoenix, and I’m the director and lead teacher trainer for Dancing Freedom. Dancing Freedom is a movement ‘practice’ that supports people to come home to their body, their heart and their soul by connecting with the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, [...]
“ The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function.” ~ Marshall McLuhan Well, what do you know, it's Labor Day once again here in [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is on Melissa Micheals and the Golden Bridge team! Today we are giving love to Melissa Micheals and the Golden Bridge Team! Melissa is a social artist dedicated to promoting collective renewal through the liberation of the creative spirit. She is the founder of Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit [...]
“Some of our finest work comes through service to others” ~ Gordon Hinckley Help us out here. We've been brainstorming some various ways that the Dance First Association could expand and evolve and be a more valuable resource and service for folks in the conscious dance community, both for active movement facilitators and [...]
This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Brietta Leader, Creator of the WildCore Movement! Judgment The topic of judgment feels extremely relevant in these 'Soulful' times. I have been acutely aware of the self-judgment, the judgment I create about others, and how it affects my energy, triggering my curiosity. I want to share [...]
“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” ~ Truman Capote How do you help hold your community together? What's your method of connecting people? Where do you welcome new folks into the mix? "New normal" or [...]
This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Jennifer Joy Jiménez, founder of Transcendance™! Hello, Fellow Conscious Dancers! If you're like me, you may have had a "before finding conscious dance" story and an "after finding conscious dance" story. Before finding conscious dance, I was a professional modern dancer and a "body abuser." I [...]
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.” ~ Aldous Huxley Are you getting enough movement in your day-to-day life? Have the shifts in our society caused a shift in your practice? What kind of adjustments have you made to deal with our evolving reality? Since our world turned [...]
