This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Adam Barley, creator of ZeroOne. We begin walking around the room, as we've done so many times before, finding our feet, getting our bearings, noticing each other. We're in Nicosia, Cyprus, and many of the dancers here know each other from other workshops, as well as socially. [...]
“Being alive is not a miracle , feeling alive is.” ~ Amit Abraham When do you feel the most 'alive'? What causes those moments when your life force reaches a higher plane? Can you imagine what life must be like for people who never experience truly sublime moments of existence? Think about it. [...]
This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Banafsheh Sayyad, creator of Dance of Oneness. Greetings dancers, Empowerment comes from taking a courageous stance not just for ourselves but also on behalf of everything we love. The circle of the self is completed when we extend our embrace, our care, and our protection to [...]
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli How's your local dance going? Are you getting back together in person? Are classes and workshops in your area getting back to normal? Then again, what exactly is "normal"? Will things ever be quite [...]
“On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.” ~ Paul Ricoeur It’s a big day in the cosmos! Our Mama Earth has teetered just as far as she can possibly go giving us the [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Emma Leech, founder of Emma Dance! ~ Stepping out and feeling our way back into a new world, post-pandemic. Sensing, feeling from my body, instinct turned raw and real, switched on and tuned in. The 5 Rhythms Movement practice has given me a place to lean into [...]
“Summertime,and the livin' is easy...Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.” ~ George Gershwin Here's to hoping your living is easy this summer. When you walk outside and the air feels like a flannel shirt turned inside out and the light has a glint to it like water on a frogs back, [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Melissa Michaels, founder of Golden Bridge! Integration and Emergence! This past weekend, a small group of Golden Bridge movers and shakers stepped onto the dance floor for the first time in 15 months. With both a well-honed orientation towards solitude and a longing for connection, we entered into a [...]
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” ~ Mahatma Gandhi (further adventures of a musical youth...) During my fifth grade year, my parents made a decision that would forever mark my life. They were somewhat disillusioned with life in Clifton, Colorado, and were contemplating [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is a tribute to Anna Halprin contributed by The Tamalpa Institute. Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance and whose experiments inspired, challenged, and sometimes perplexed generations of dancers and audiences, died on Monday at her [...]
