When I first started participating in the Anar Dana Bay Area project, I was super excited. It seemed that I finally was becoming a dancer. Then I noticed that I wasn’t doing the daily practice that I had put together …
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I decided to let my hair grow longer. Except for a few years, most recently over 20 years ago, my hair has been short, sometimes very short. More recently, I had already started letting it grow a little bit, so …
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I am hesitating even writing this blog post because I think I’ll be embarrassed about some of the insights that are bubbling up. And, yet, I am pushing forth writing it because, as usual, I think that I am simply …
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I just returned from a six week trip to Greece, spending most of my time attending fulfilling folk dance workshops. Aside from having a lot of fun learning dances and being exposed to various regions of Greece, I also did …
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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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