This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Lorca Simons / Live Wire! Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light." Jerzy Grotowski There has never been a more poignant time in our lives to make theatre. "Break down the fourth wall and all the [...]
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Heard from any old friends lately? Is your favorite so-called 'social media' site or app down? Any mixups or crossed-wires in your communications? Well, there has to a scientific explanation for [...]
This week’s Dance First Members’ Spotlight shines on our entire revered family of Dance First members! It’s our honor and privilege to serve such a dynamic and high-vibration community of leaders around the world! Starting out with long-time the pioneering Tamalpa Institute . From the Life/Art Process to the Tamalpa ArtCorps, they’re cultivating Anna and Daria Halprin’s family [...]
“ Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.” ~ Hillary Clinton Do you ever find yourself immersed in a project? What is it about making and creating things that's so compelling? Why are some of us humans so geared towards building stuff? It all starts with [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from 5Rhythms dance, dharma, and meditation leader Lucia Horan! Pillars of Self Care Let the love you give yourself, become the fuel for the love you give others. There has never been a more important time than the era of COVID for us to reflect on [...]
“ Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~ Albert Einstein So, you have a weekly newsletter and you're at a loss for words. Some 437 weeks of coming up with new and engaging topics, and you start to think, "Is the well running dry?" It's a creative pursuit, and you've managed to turn it [...]
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 [...]
