From Chapter 52 “Caution! Bus is turning. Caution! Bus is turning.” I hear this over and over as I receive a much-needed massage from my dear friend, Jen. I am trying everything I can to deal with my stress. Her office sits a block from the busy thoroughfare of Germantown Avenue and the nearby #23 […]
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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 “Blewu.” Saturday night I got
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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 you love is the first
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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 the victims of the Nova
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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 three-hour sessions and for a
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One of my favorite things to do in this season is to watch the Oscar nominated short films- documentary, live action and animated. Last week I saw the documentaries, each one a powerhouse in its own way. I don’t think I breathed at all through Incident, the riveting film about a Chicago police shooting told
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We are still in scary times, but I took a break last week to hear the heart-felt, deep soulful music of Lizz Wright at the World Cafe Live, here in Philly. I was not disappointed. I first discovered Lizz in 2005 when I was living in New York City and taking a lyrical jazz class
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Autocracies end….eventually, I tell myself. Sometimes a leader dies. Sometimes he is overtaken by force. Hitler killed himself in a bunker when he knew it was over for him, but so much damage had already been done. So, how does one live creatively when it gets really bad? I ventured out to the movies again
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In these dark and challenging times, the impulse is strong to run away from it all, to hide under the covers. I’ve not been shocked by the events of recent weeks and have been busy calling my senators. A post on social media reminded me of all the great art that was made in times
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They are called tomten in Sweden, mythical creatures from Scandanavian folklore, guardian spirits of the home and farm, who protect animals and land. I found them all over the city this December. This one was in the old city, Gamla Stan. I loved walking around this well preserved medieval city. Another Tomte in Gamla
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