This week's Monday Love Insight is from Kelsay Meyers & Dialogical Persona! I believe in the power of metaphor to give birth to love, especially self-love. For me, it all began in a continental philosophy class on Dialogical Self Theory and watching the movie based on Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in which the [...]
This week's Monday Love Insight is from Cathy Ryan and Open Floor! At the age of 19, after an intensive and wonderful two year’s actor training at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin I spent many years working as an actor. I worked with Philippe Gaulier, Theatre De Complicite, Theatre Du Soleil and [...]
Happy New Year, Dancers! I want to tell you about Believe Music Heals, which award-winning singer/songwriter/voice coach Essence Goldman launched to transform lives through music. This is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing healing and hope through music to those who need it most, offering programs to people experiencing hardship and distress and those with chronic [...]
This week's spotlight feature is on Brooke Johnston & Conscious Dancer's inner workings! Hey everyone! My name is Brooke, and I'm Mark's writer/editor! I help out behind the scenes with some of the Monday Love particulars, including this section right here. If you've been reading Monday Love for a minute, you might have noticed [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Adam Barley & ZeroOne! The Story You don’t need to know this story in order to dive in and use ZeroOne as a practice, and you certainly don’t need to understand the exquisite mathematical pattern that is its ‘operating system’, but in case you’re curious, here’s what [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Brietta Leader & WildCore! My story highlights the memories, travels, communities and studies that led me to my path as a healing artist and conscious dance pioneer. Some of my earliest memories were choreographing dances and bossing all my little cousins around to perform a Thanksgiving show [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Adelle Brewer and The Synergy Studio! I have been a life-long advocate of positive affirmations, movement, breath, and how I can make choices every moment, based in love. I believe we can change raise our vibration physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I have also been a community builder, believing [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Lorca Simons & Live Wire! SOUL REVIVAL: A Live Wire Experiment Unearthed Let’s gather to whisper and circle from the ground our rites of restoration. Let’s stand and shout to rally the forces that revitalize our spirited dreams into creative realities.Let’s surrender our bones to the beat that [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Banafsheh & Dance of Oneness! "If you ponder deeply, you will see that only dance allows us to truly experience the interconnectedness of the universe in our flesh and bones, and no other practice can be as powerful a conduit for accessing and experiencing the sacred directly." [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from The Great Dickens Fair! THE COW PALACE ROLLS OUT THE RED AND GREEN CARPET FOR AN EXPANDED GREAT DICKENS CHRISTMAS FAIR FEATURING A NEW INDOOR SKATING RINK AND CHRISTMAS TREE SALES! SAN FRANCISCO, CA - (October 26, 2022) After a two-year hiatus, The Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian [...]
