Monthly Archives: May 2013

Why dance?

From all the tweeting and all the talk and all the writing, you may have known about a certain fundraiser on May the 4th. I agreed, about a year ago, at the coaxing of several past contestants that I would compete. We would all compete and go toe-to-toe, as it were, in the dance fundraising […]

Supporting creativity Pt. 8

This is the end. Beautiful friend. This is the end. My only friend, the end. This evening finding myself writing the last of my posts in this series. Finding myself. Finding myself writing. Finding myself. My relationship with dance has been pervasive and thorough. Filling. Fulfilling. Every aspect of it soup to nuts. I love […]

Supporting creativity Pt. 7

Learn a language. Learn a lot of them. There are some words that are far too weak to use and require reconsideration. Other languages have much better words. They sound better. More accurate. Beautiful. Hear them and wonder why we have to even translate. So many borrowed words already, what’s a few more? Several years […]

Supporting creativity Pt. 6

The first time I have been moved nearly to tears by dance was in college. I have explained the tunnel vision of audience participation before. This lucid state was, is, like a drug to me. Attention. Do I have your attention? Yes. Now don’t anyone mess it up. Life became exciting. Busy. Graduation. Work. Busy. […]