musings

My foot is in Conscious Dancer magazine

2009-04-10T08:54:00.001-07:00

Check out page 25 of the latest Conscious Dancer magazine and you will see my foot. (In this online version it is 13 "next page" clicks.)

Excellent Song on Prairie Home Companion

2009-01-29T14:05:00.001-08:00

New Hampshire snow

2009-01-18T20:55:00.000-08:00

there is nothing like this peaceful feeling.

RSVP Cycles

2007-05-30T14:35:00.002-07:00

RESOURCES - These are the human and material resources available to inform and enrich the creative process; the resource base includes a physical inventory and a project program, objectives and expectations

SCORE - As in a musical score or the choreography of dance; the score orchestrates design, participation, events and activities that visibly delineate, generate and sustain a project

VALUACTION - As an integral part of the process, people's feelings and belief systems, as well as community needs and desires must be integrated with a decision-making process that respects, acknowledges and incorporates these values

PERFORMANCE - Includes the product and its evolution over time; this component of the Cycles anticipates an organic, non-static solution; an environment or result that is defined by those who use it, experience it, and appreciate it.

REFERENCE - The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment -- Lawrence Halprin [1969]

ISBN - 0807605573

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Patience for Change

2007-03-24T14:40:00.000-07:00

I read the New York Times front section last night, cover to cover practically. I stopped to close my eyes and pray in between articles- for Iraqi people, for our government, for Mrs. Edwards and her family. I was entranced, had to keep reading, each new headline enticed me.

Afterwards, on the phone with Joel I just realized how much despair I felt with/at/because of the world.

This morning I am left with that gnawing, what am I doing, what can I do. In reading The Patience to Win by Eisha Mason (part of the book Stop the Next War Now) I am reminded of what is accomplished. I was egged into remembering that it takes fortitude and longevity for change, and always has. Martin Luther King, Jr. is quoted and he, of all speakers, inspires me the most. I felt the tears in my throat as I read this to my mother on the phone.

"I come to say to you: however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow. How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Place vs. Site-specific

2007-03-15T22:58:00.000-07:00

Hello. I've been thinking about the word Site and how I and collaborators use it in our dance making/performing. I think Site indicates that the location is defined by the dance itself. Site is a place something happens.
After reflection, I think using the word Place is more appropriate and respectful to the environment. After all, a location/place/site exists long before and long after the dance is performed. Site, seems a bit demeaning, to define a location in nature in relation to something we would do. The word Place holds for me, a sense of fullness, an awareness of the independent life of the Place.
What do you think?

One Year

2007-02-25T23:22:00.000-08:00

This is what I've been doing for the last year. Well actually, it's been a hard year, and this is what I've received, the gift of my family. My sister is amazing- strong, healthy, growing. My mother is a rock, a woman of immense power and fortitude. I am learning to love god again. May all things happen in their own time. May my family (including those not shown here) continue to be well.

Inspiring photographs

2006-02-12T17:39:00.000-08:00

My mother and I are visiting this exhibit in April. It looks amazing. I encourage you to visit if possible. Apparently, nothing is digitally altered or set up.