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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from 5Rhythms Dance, Dharma, and Meditation leader Lucia Horan. Grief Dancer: Resource & Renewal in the time of the Pandemic Many things have been learned during the time of the Pandemic. We have been asked to address the collective grief and come to terms with the fact that almost [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
