Five years ago today, I went to my first dance class – Greek folk dancing at GreekFeet. This small change has led to so many others. Maybe because it started to reintegrate my body and mind, regrounding me into myself. …
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There has been a debate in the folk dance community I am a part of about how to get more young people involved in folk dance. The strategy most prominently suggested is to offer more couples dances, which has gotten …
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Although I feel tremendously grateful that my energy levels are at a much more normal level than they were about a year ago, I am struggling with accepting that I seem to have less energy than healthy folks. Ever since …
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Waking drenched. No salty tears. Everything changed. That’s the imperfect haiku I wrote in an attempt to capture something that happened recently. The other night, I woke up around 2 AM because my sheet and comforter had gotten soaked. Although …
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Can we use dance as a tool for social change? Eve Ensler and V-Day thought so. And thus they set out to get one billion people to rise to break the chain of violence against women. Break the Chain is …
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As i’ve mentioned before, i am in the rather challenging, often painful, process of leaving a year-long program that i had thought might provide the supportive communal backing for my work i am longing for. In one of the discussions, …
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