This week's Dance First Insight is from La Boutique Fantasque! Attention dancers and ballet lovers of all ages! If you and your family enjoy extraordinary ballet, you don’t want to miss La Boutique Fantasque presented by New Ballet. A 1919 ballet originally choreographed by Leonide Massine, “The Enchanted Toyshop” has been re-imagined with choreography by Dalia [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Ilona Glinarsky & Living Tango! Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Ilona is no stranger to music and dance. Growing up in the former Soviet Union she was exposed to dance and music from the age of four. A classically trained pianist, Ilona has a deep understanding and appreciation for music and [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Dr. Birgitte Tan! Tell Us a Story About a Patient or Client Suffering From Grief and How Dance Therapy Helped Penelope (name has been changed) had complicated grief from cumulative grief (grief overload) as well as disenfranchise grief (grief downplayed or overlooked by others) for over 40 years. [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Lamara Heartwell! When we push our bodies hard without compassion — using, abusing, exploiting, or unconsciously depleting our inner resources — we are mirroring a larger pattern of a dysfunctional relationship with Mother Earth. This destructive pattern has become so commonplace in Western culture that we think [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Critical Mass Dance Company! Trauma-Informed Principles in Action: Working for CMDC Working for Critical Mass Dance Company (CMDC), I've witnessed and experienced trauma-informed principles for myself in a workplace for the first time in my adult life. This experience in and of itself helps me to continue [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Kristen Mangione and LILA - Dance Alchemy for the Soul! After two years of isolating in a completely upside-down world, what does it mean to reemerge and dance in a shared space now? I asked others to join me in answering this question in our first in-person [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Adam Barley, the man behind ZeroOne! During my work, stuff comes up. There’s often a strong sense of moving through it in a way that feels like healing, to use the original meaning of the word, which is related to wholeness, and holiness. We become more completely ourselves. [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on the 5th Annual FAST FORWARD Contemporary Ballet! Hammer Theatre Center – San Jose, CA Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 7:30pm An evening of original choreography, emboldening dancers and pushing boundaries. Fast Forward provides the opportunity for award-winning and cutting-edge choreographers, both local and from around the country, to experiment. Choreographers Amy [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Stacey Butcher! Wow…what a dancing journey this has been the last few years, dancing with the unknown moment by moment. This is where we apply our practice on the dance floor to our everyday lives. After the pandemic hit, of course, everything changed for us. Like everyone, [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Melissa Michaels, Golden Bridge, and Golden Girls Global! The world needs us to mobilize. Did you know that Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is a badass dancer? Zelensky Dancing! He won Dancing with the Stars in 2006. One never knows where the dancing path will lead you! How is the [...]
