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  • Falling for Isadora Duncan

    November 7, 2009

    • I'm in awe. Crisp air, bright sunshine, swirling leaves of yellow, and faeries celebrating another healthy harvest. No, I'm not hallucinating. Today, I stopped by the local Applefest looking for candy apples, maybe a pie or two, instead I found myself in a profound moment, the kind that brings tears to the eyes. I'd seen the scratchy films of Isadora Duncan's performances many times, but never a ...
  • JVB Conservatory of Arts!

    October 28, 2009

    • We are opening our doors! The concept is a conservatory where the archetypes method is used as an organizing principle for all work.Our curriculum opens with a weekly Friday night "AW Movie Night," where we will watch a "UoD" movie from the list in the book. UoD movies contain two worlds or "universes of discourse" which interact in a particular way. ...
  • Pavlova with paws

    October 21, 2009

    •        Throughout her prolonged adolescence the puppy has consistently maintained an elevated opinion of herself.  I make the mistake of reading my recent blog to her and she picks up on my critique of her non-show-worthy physical attributes.     She flashes me that furrowed-brow stare I have come to dread.  “What does a low tail set mean, anyway?”     I would rather take out ...
  • Delicious

    October 13, 2009

    • It's Deli Day at Temple Israel. In the community hall the stage is piled thick and close with white paper bags, each bag containing a wrapped corned-beef sandwich, a container of slaw, a pickle, and some mustard. The corned beef has been flown in from New York City. The bags emerge from offstage--the Temple's kitchen--and are deposited in white clusters like folded swans along the proscenium's ...
  • Dance in indian wedding.

    September 15, 2009

    •  Dance in Indian wedding is a main part of event. When groom's family and relatives with friends called 'Barrat' or 'Jaan' arrived at wedding place called 'Mandapam', women and men from bride's side welcome and receive  them with dance.Here is one.                                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbn9KQhzj3gThe lyrics on loud music is as below in my liberal kind ...
  • How the Creative Arts Validate Our Existence

    September 8, 2009

    •   I've always appreciated the arts and believe they add greatly to our existence. Strike that-rather, I believe that they validate our very being. From music to literature, to painting and photography, it is the creative works that make life so much more bearable. I gave this idea some consideration when a friend from Wales was showing me photographs he'd been taking over the last few days. They ...
  • all I want to do is dance, dance, dance

    May 7, 2009

    • Isn't there is a song with those lyrics? I just had my 3rd ballroom dancing lesson today and I have to say, I am really liking it. For 45 minutes, the world goes away and in this economy, that can be a very good thing. One simply can't spend 24/7 worrying or menopausing and stay healthy. I also found that the little bit of fencing I did a few years ago, came in handy today for learning new steps ...
  • Dancing in Antwerp

    April 27, 2009

    • Imagine this. It is eight in the morning in Antwerp, Belgium, and the cities largest Railway Station is crowded with people. Most walk brusquely through the large marble building, climbing and descending the broad staircases with hardly a look to one another. They are busy with cell phones, Ipods, and children gone amok. They are thick in thought. Suddenly, the constant prattle of announcements ...
  • Poetry in Action

    April 14, 2009

    • This weekend the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company and the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater will bring together words and dance. My poem will read with simultaneous interpretation. Now that will be something.
  • Dancing for god?

    April 7, 2009

    • She was a striptease artist, an exotic lap dancer titillating men in nightclubs across Milan. Today, she is a nun. Anna Nobili found her new calling after a visit to the shrine of St Francis in Assisi in 2002. She has transformed her old profession and not given it up. According to a report:Sister Nobili is due to perform in front of senior Catholic clerics later this week at the Holy Cross in ...