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Intrepid: Life Lessons from Dancing
A living room. A town green. A Zoom screen. A sand bar. A list of random nouns? Nope. To keep dancing this past year, these have been my “venues” for teaching, rehearsing and performing. As I prepared to teach class … Continue reading
Got Demons?
Regal and huge egrets have returned to the marsh, so commanding in their power, grace, and tenacity. And yet, to our surprise, red-winged blackbirds that are about 1/20 the egrets’ size have frequently been initiating pestering the egrets. Pecking at … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Nature, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged commitment, courage, Dance, dance rehearsal, demons, egrets, eyes on the prize, focus, Inspiration, marsh, nature, naysayer, nemesis, pavane, quotes, self-doubt, skeptics, tenacity
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Yes! We ARE Artists
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged aliveness, artist, commitment, Creativity, Dance, dancer, expansiveness, Inspiration, life of the artist, Martha Graham, movement, passion, pop up performance, positivity, quotes, transcendence, vitality
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Making It Work: Site Specific Dance Performance
Connection and commitment. Those are the two main takeaways I garnered from my dance performance last weekend. I have been working on a solo,”borderland,” inspired by my new environment of living on the marsh. In the piece, I am investigating … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged artistic vision, betweenness, borderland, Choreography, commitment, Connection, Creativity, Dance, dance jam, flexibility, healing, heart, improvisation, Inspiration, make it work, marsh, movement, open, opennness, Performance, public art, quotes, site specific performance
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Next Stop, Transcendence
I don’t actually know if that will be the next stop. What I do know, as I get ready to go to dance, is that if I don’t shift gears now, transcendence won’t be on the itinerary any time soon. … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged awareness, being present, commitment, dancing, flow state, Inspiration, meaningful, mindful, miracles, movement, openness, optimal experience, passion, possibility and expansiveness, practice, quotes, self, transcendence
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The Importance of Showing Up
I cannot remember the last time I danced as poorly as I did today. I had half decided not to go to class as I had been feeling under the weather. Then, when I went out to the marsh and … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged aliveness, body, Change, commitment, consciousness, devotion, failure, grace, healing, Inspiration, Joy, keep moving, movement, movement practice, passion, perseverance, physical, possibility and expansiveness, practice, quotes, reverence, seeing, showing up, vitality
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Full Throttle: Life Lessons from Dancing
People performing “at full throttle” are doing something as well, and with as much energy, as they can. It’s 5:00 a.m. on a June weekend, the birds’ volume mounting as they sing their songs to a new day. I am … Continue reading
Momentum: Life Lessons from Dancing
I need to get back to that place. That enthralling place, that place inside me where I was a few days ago…in a gorgeous yoga studio luminescing with positive vibes…choreographing, alone, in the zone. That place that carried me forward … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged artist, bodysurfing, Breathe, Choreography, commitment, Dance, dive in, flow, force, Inspiration, life lessons, mindful, momentum, movement, Ocean, open up, sea, waves
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find the lighthouse of your heart
at sea again the dolorous rigging clangs, clangs longingly haunting me (or is that my heart?) scanning hungrily tides of horizons incessantly lapping the future’s bow adrift wondering once more where to steer such elusive shores, when you or the … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged adrift, at sea, commitment, heart, Inspiration, lighthouse, mindful, Ocean, passion, perseverance, poetry, sea, soulful, wisdom
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Practice: Life Lessons from Dancing
“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged commitment, Dance, devotion, faith, Inspiration, learning, life lessons, mindful, movement, passion, Performance, persistence, practice, quotes, rehearsal, Rumi, self, Showtime, soulful, transcendence, vision
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