Today is Day One of the Healthy For Life 12-week online program for changing eating habits. My goals are health, and weight loss.
Today I shared five minutes of belly dancing with some dear friends.
Today I set in motion access to the gym at the YMCA. The stationary bicycle should help, since walking is harder for me with pain in the foot, knee and ankle. Have to let strains heal.
Today is a beautiful day.
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Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Saturday, July 26, 2008
What a Wonderful World
Yes! My son found Louis Armstrong's rendition of Art Garfunkel's, "What a Wonderful World," for my dance with him at the reception after his marriage to the very finest girl in all the world, rockin' diva Lael.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Mary Wigman
Brainy Quote has one quote from Mary Wigman:
"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
Wigman (1883-1973)had an enormous impact on the development of modern dance. She was the teacher of my teacher, Liljan Espenak, in Berlin between world wars.
The quote gives an idea of the direction of her impact: dancing from the heart, improvising, finding forms. This goes beyond the rigorous athletic training of a dancer, who must develop physical strength and balance, stamina and endurance, and a willingness to take on new gestures and dynamics, new vocabulary. It has more to do with choreography, with discovery of character and psychodynamics, as well as finding expressive movement specific to the dancer's body type.
Wigman contributed to the intellectual ferment of the period, interacting with anthropologists, psychiatrists and artists. They all attempted to understand human nature, human development, societal formation, religious impulse.
Espenak was a dancer and choreographer who became an Adlerian psychotherapist. She adapted her training to help people express themselves and heal themselves, by the truths emerging from their dance, not from theory.
"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
Wigman (1883-1973)had an enormous impact on the development of modern dance. She was the teacher of my teacher, Liljan Espenak, in Berlin between world wars.
The quote gives an idea of the direction of her impact: dancing from the heart, improvising, finding forms. This goes beyond the rigorous athletic training of a dancer, who must develop physical strength and balance, stamina and endurance, and a willingness to take on new gestures and dynamics, new vocabulary. It has more to do with choreography, with discovery of character and psychodynamics, as well as finding expressive movement specific to the dancer's body type.
Wigman contributed to the intellectual ferment of the period, interacting with anthropologists, psychiatrists and artists. They all attempted to understand human nature, human development, societal formation, religious impulse.
Espenak was a dancer and choreographer who became an Adlerian psychotherapist. She adapted her training to help people express themselves and heal themselves, by the truths emerging from their dance, not from theory.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Pilobolus
Go to TED and watch the video of the Pilobolous Dance Company. "A union of dance and biology," begins to describe their work, which uses the natural mechanics of the human body to the flowing, balancing extreme.
You may have seen a Ford car ad in which dancers form the outline of a car, and then the car materializes. That was Pilobolus .
Beautiful. Fearless. Exploratory.
You may have seen a Ford car ad in which dancers form the outline of a car, and then the car materializes. That was Pilobolus .
Beautiful. Fearless. Exploratory.
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