Setting Your Bliss Free
March 12, 2010 · Posted by BlissChick ·
(Me, a grouchy Lilly, a disinterested Toby, and lots of limbs)If you've still not seen the new banner here on blisschick, click out of the reader or your email and come directly to the site.There are a couple of things in the new banner I want to talk about.First, when you get to blisschick, it's much more obvious what this chick's bliss is -- dance.Yet this is not a "dance blog." It's a blog about following your bliss path, staying true to your essence, and making choices every day that are brave and big and beautiful and bright.My dance ...
Dance is Magic
March 11, 2010 · Posted by BlissChick ·
(Driftwood on our beach this past weekend.)Megan from Limitless Living sent me this fabulous quote from the man who was Joseph Cambell's main inspiration in his years as a developing mythologist. That seems full circle to me, considering the first post on this blog was about how inspired I have been by Campbell, whose wife was a pioneer in modern dance, by the way.Zimmer was one of the first Westerners to really dive into and write about the mythology, ritual, and philosophies of the East, India in particular."Dancing is an ancient form of magic. The dancer becomes amplified ...
Big Eater at The Kitchen
March 11, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Andrew Dinwiddie and Neal Medlyn in David Neumann’s Big Eater, photo by Paula Court
An inebriated David Hasselhoff, a Big Mac, Giselle, and pretentious panel discussions – these are just a few of the sources that shaped David Neumann’s Big Eater, which was performed at The Kitchen last weekend and continues through this Saturday. This may sound like a recipe for big laughs, but Big Eater is a dark, depressing work filled with piles of language and movement – not to mention a pile of chairs from floor to ceiling – that become denser and more disorderly as the work progresses. ...
A New Look for a New Attitude
March 10, 2010 · Posted by BlissChick ·
(If you're reading in a reader or email, you're missing the new look part of this post! Go directly to the blog to see what's happening.)This blog and I have come a long way in almost two years.What started as an experiment in blissful living, including posts about the environment and our car free lifestyle, has evolved, as have I. I can give a lot of credit for my defeat of chronic, life-numbing, sometimes precariously-close-to-death depression to this blog.I did things I would not have done, and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit, it was all for the ...
A Choreography of Healing in Israel
March 10, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Daniel Banks and Adam McKinney, the founders of DNAWORKS, recently spent time in Israel working with two young men – both of whom studied dance – left immobile below the ribs after a gunman opened fire last August on a safe space in Tel Aviv for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender youth. The Jewish Forward recently wrote about Banks and McKinney’s experience and approach, which focuses on utilizing creativity and artistic expression to strengthen the healing process and build personal identity. Here is an excerpt from this inspiring story.
Last August a gunman entered the Aguda building in Tel Aviv and ...
Challenge Update
March 9, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
How to Make a Ballet Bun
March 9, 2010 · Posted by MDDCDance ·
A How To guide with clear photographs - necessary for every ballet student.
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Also…if you’re in LA and want to see what should be a great show, check out:
March 9, 2010 · Posted by This is me dancing. ·
CELEBRATE DANCE 2010Saturday, March 13 @ 8:00PMAlex Theatre216 North Brand BlvdGlendale, California 91203Featuring:BARE Dance Company Body Current DanceJazzAntiqua Dance and Music EnsembleJosie Walsh’s MyoKyoMacarena Gandarillas and Dancers - Visions Dance TheatreMotion TribePTERO Dance TheatreRhetOracle Dance CompanyBox Office: 818.243.2539 Check Out: http://www.celebratedance.org
Tickets: $17-$35 children $12 Student & DRC discounts Group rate for 15 or more 25% off
Related posts:Miami folks! Check out this preview of Vuyani Dance Theatre and go see the show this weekend!
If you’re in LA, come check out Sababa Dance Company at…
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Pocket cinema: En Tus Brazos
March 8, 2010 · Posted by Personal Cyber Botanica ·
A short 3D film about Tango and a passionate couple of dancers entitled En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms), directed by François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour in Spanish-French coo-production to warm our frozen limbs as well as for speeding up blood in our veins in this marble cold evening…
Synopsis:
The greatest tango dancer of [...]
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Bridgman/Packer Dance at Baryshnikov Arts Center
March 8, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
Baryshnikov Arts Center
presents
Bridgman/Packer Dance
Double Expose
-World Premiere-
Mar 25 - 28
7:30 PM / THU - SAT
4 PM SUN
TICKETS: $20
www.smarttix.com / 212 868 4444
An ingenious trompe l’œuil fusion of physical and video-image bodies…merged and then disappeared with magical and fascinating suddenness” - New York Times
With a nod to classical icons of cinema, choreographer/performers Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer blend live camera, hand-drawn animation, and prerecorded urban settings to create multilayered perspectives and surreal mindscapes amid a highly sensual alchemy of the live and the virtual. Video by Peter Bobrow, music by Ken Field, animation by Karen Aqua, and lighting design by Frank ...
