Dancing Into the Woods

What do Little Red Riding Hood, Jack & the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, have in common? They all come together for adventures in one musical entitled: Into the Woods! As you may have guessed, after my Bali trip earlier this summer, I headed to my family vacation in Michigan with all my grandnieces/nephews. We have a tradition of creating a video production each year, and despite our best efforts to go in a direction of simplicity, we ended up being totally enthralled with the intersection of beloved fairy tale characters all engaging in a complex & playful romp in the woods!

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Posted: September 17, 2024 by

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Balinese Beauty

Blessings of summer! I hope you are having a refreshing and restorative season! I mentioned in my last missive that I was heading on pilgrimage to the magical island of Bali (in Indonesia.) What an amazing adventure in dance, spirit, and artistry! How blessed that my friend, Agnotti Cowie organized this immersion trip through InterPlay so we could create our own beauty as well as join in the dance, music, mask-making, & shadow puppetry of Bali.

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Posted: July 31, 2024 by

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The Dancing Trinity

Happy Summer! I wanted to share that a couple weeks ago was Trinity Sunday, At my parish, Dcn. Steve Wodzanowski With Steve’s invitation, this was the perfect opportunity to bring Trinity to life in a joyous embodied way. I was able to invite two of my dancing friends from our Thea Bowman production to be part of a dancing trio with me. At Abbey of the Arts we have just completed the launch of our new Prayer Cycle!

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Posted: June 19, 2024 by

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Dancing with Peter Pan

Aaargh and shiver me timbers! It’s been a whole summer since I’ve written to you! And during this season you can see that I had a powerful encounter with Captain Hook! As you may remember, it is part of my family tradition to create video productions with my grandnieces/nephews during our summer stay in Michigan together. This year brought forth the story of Peter Pan! What an amazing adventure to enter this story with 7 of my family little ones from 3-13 years old. Not only that, but seven of our adults also jumped in as pirates, plus a brother as videographer and sister as co-director. Woohoo!

I hope you, too, have had a chance to enter some revelry in the sweet gifts of summer! Please take a look at some of the adventures I have planned for the coming year … it would be so good to share some dancing time with you!

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Posted: September 11, 2023 by

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Dancing Down the Rabbit Hole!

Greetings!

Who are we? Where are we? Have we fallen down the rabbit hole? Our world cries out with fires and floods … our families struggle with finding protocols that allow both connection and safety, we embrace the gifts of summer while bracing for transitions to indoor realities this fall. Can we go ahead with our retreat? Workshop? Funeral? Party? So many questions!

Posted: September 10, 2021 by

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Dancing Through Our Days to Tomorrow!

Greetings! Meet Ms. Hannigan. (Remember her from the story Annie?) She’s had a hard-knock life. And she takes it out on all those kids! She has a certain amount of power, but she’s unsettled and unhappy. She’s stuck in the system, and she abuses the system; she’s lured by money and lies in order to gain more money. Seems these …

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Posted: September 20, 2020 by

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