This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Rachel Goodman! Hello Conscious Dancer Community! I am a resilience consultant, facilitator, and speaker from Canada. I am also a movement, vocal, and visual artist. In 2020, I suddenly had to learn many skills to get my work online. Before COVID times, my business had grown by [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Moti Zemelman, host of the world-renowned Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica! As I'm sure most dancers can attest, keeping our dance practices alive during the pandemic has been a challenge. This has been especially true for an intimate partner dance form like Contact Improvisation, which is [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Cocréa! - Fear is Safe. Unraveling the paradox our mind can't believe through listening to the body. Hello Winter. Hello darkness. The old familiar, fertile ground from which we draw our sustenance. In his Gene Keys contemplations, The 64 Ways, Richard Rudd, delivers this nugget, "Fear is [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Nancy Trunzo and Witch Way Wellness! Magical living isn't about getting the "Quick Fix" from a candle, spell, or potion. Magical living is about developing a resilient, thriving relationship with yourself by tending to the wellness of mind, body, and spirit. Hi there, I'm Nancy (She/They): a [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Brietta Leader and the WildCore Movement! Welcome to WildCore™ movement, an exploration of Choreography, Conscious dance, Breath-work, and Belonging. WildCore™ is a dance-based practice that explores the wilderness of body and soul. Leading the dancer on a path of untamed self-discovery, healing, and expressive movement that uses [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Open Floor! An Immediate And Direct Application of Open Floor In My Life Johanne Webb had been hoping to train with Open Floor ever since she attended her first class 3 years ago, immediately seeing the potential of bringing embodied movement into her therapeutic work as a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
