“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth” ~ Muhammad Ali I've got a slightly different Monday Love for you today, sort of a cross between an invitation and a request. As you probably know, the Dance First Association was formed to serve the needs of the international [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from global movement leader Ya'Acov Darling Khan, co-founder of Movement Medicine. Greetings dear dancers, My whole life has centered around the great unanswerable questions of our universe. The original iteration of this fascination was: 'If God created all this, what created God.' From the age of 5, I would [...]
“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine...” ~ J.B.S. Haldane What's your relationship with mystery? How do you approach the great unanswerable questions of the universe? Do you ever get confused between empirical evidence and unsubstantiated beliefs? Wouldn't it be great to be absolutely certain [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from UK-based Lorca Simons, creator of the Live Wire & Wingspan interpretations of 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre. "I want to feel that we can touch each other through the screen towards a new kind of intimacy. Listening with the ear of the heart, seeing with the eye of [...]
“ Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.” ~ Alexander Calder Have you ever heard of The Boho Dance? No, it's not the latest conscious movement modality, far from it. We're talking art, specifically the world of Modern Art in its 20th Century post-WW-I manifestation. If you're like [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Bay Area-based Alexis Mulhauser, Nia Technique, Self-Breema, and Yin Yoga facilitator and founder of Nourish the Essence. "Learning to Teach; Teaching to Learn" Bringing expression to the dancefloor during COVID. It never occurred to me a year and a half ago that I would find myself [...]
“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.” ~ Lois McMaster Bujold (Please enjoy these further recollections about growing up under the influence of vinyl) "In which a curious youngster discovers that music may have consciousness-raising effects." 5th grade saw me uprooted from the cattle ranch and Scenic Elementary, [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Sedona-based Maneesha McClure, founder of Dance Alchemy. Dear Dancers, In the mid-'60s, Gabrielle Roth arrived at Esalen and began teaching in Fritz Perls' gestalt workshops. Her teachings focused on getting a society of 'up in the head' people to open their bodies and resolve their repressed [...]
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Do you remember Middle School? Or maybe it was called Junior High, like it was for me. Those years in your educational career that roughly spanned the ages between about eleven and fourteen. Looking back it [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Dr. Jamie Marich, founder of Dancing Mindfulness "Dancing Through Troubled Times" When I sought out my own recovery from trauma-related disorders and addiction in my early twenties, one of the reasons that I was open to accessing the emotions needed for healing is that the arts (and [...]
