A Creative Life

I’ve wanted to see world music vocalist and five-time Grammy winner, Angélique Kidjo, ever since I heard her album Eve in 2014 and started using her music in my Global Rhythms Dance programs. I danced joyously with hundreds of families to rousing “M’Baamba” (Kenyan Song). We rested with her lullaby...

  So, I started this book in June of 2019 and it is finally going to come out into the world. I’m excited!! Here’s my first installment post of a “sneak peek” into the book. First, about the title.  This quote appears on one of my opening pages. “Losing someone...

The piece begins with a single dancer running frantically and fearfully on the stage. She is running from something. We don’t know what. “Darkness—Dancing to Pieces,” performed by the Philly-based Koresh Dance Company this past weekend             (March 14-16)  at FringeArts, is “dedicated to all...

  When I’m free on Tuesday mornings, you’ll find me at the Plastic Club, drawing from a clothed model. Since 1897, the Plastic Club has been a place for artists to express themselves with  various media. They provide easels, tables, and drawing boards—you bring the rest! Volunteer monitors run the...