Our beloved Wayne A. Gilbert died peacefully at home on September 23, surrounded by family. In moments like these, we would look to Wayne to write a poem that gave us the words to understand our own feelings. In the absence of those words… this image was taken by Annabelle Denmark as part of our 2018 […]
We end each Reconnect class with a movement meditation: Breathe compassion and gratitude into your own body Send compassion and gratitude to everyone in our dancer circle Send compassion and gratitude to all of our dancer friends that couldn’t be in the room with us today Feel the compassion and gratitude we’ve generated here ripple out […]
Today was our 99th Reconnect class of 2020. In Reconnect, we believe you get a gold star just for showing up – we all deserve huge gold stars for making it through this year, and our dancers get another one for continuing to dance and stay connected to each other. I do Kaiut Yoga three […]
Last Sunday we did a full show run through, and our lighting designer Jenna saw the show for the first time. After the final bow, she described the experience as “it warms the soul.” Our past two shows, liturgy for turbulent times (2017) and (in)VISIBLE (2018) asked a lot of audiences – they were full of heavier topics like loss, spirituality and […]
Dance for PD® Training Reflections: what I learned about being a dancer & teacher Last week I spent three days at Dance for PD® Headquarters in Brooklyn exploring the art of dance and teaching with 70 other dance for Parkinson’s teachers from all over the world. I wanted to share some of my discoveries from this intensive, […]
meet the Artivists: Wayne, Emma & Karen Liturgy for Turbulent Times brings together an unlikely collective of creative voices with a variety of impetuses for being a part of this show. Here are a few of the voices that created this one of a kind performance: “the body wants a sacred space the spirit wants […]
Art as Action Artistic Director and Reconnect instructor Sarah Leversee was invited to write an article for the Parkinson Voice, a quarterly publication of Parkinson Association of the Rockies. Here is the article:
