Monthly Archives: September 2013

past, still present

Photo:  Ellen Sebring

From left to right:  Alissa Cardone, DeAnna Pellecchia, Mia Keinanen and Ingrid Schatz.  These beautiful women have worked with me as dancers for various durations beginning with Mia in 1995!  DeAnna and Ingrid still do, both with horses and without.  This photo was taken after our performance at Boston University on Friday night.

Besides the incredible energy, beauty and intelligence that pours from these women, there is a deep heart/body/soul connection that we share, growing from many, many hours spent collectively diving into the deep well of movement and consciousness.  I am so appreciative of each of them.  Ellen Sebring, the astonishing woman who took the photo,  has documented my work and collaborated on film projects with me for twenty-five years.  Here she is with lovely Pony (he has his own webpage!!!):

 

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oceans everywhere

from Hubble:  Lagoon Nebula in the Sagittarius constellation.

There is the ocean of gratitude

because I awaken

because you are there

because there is a cat cuddled in

the crook of my elbow.

There is the ocean of sorrow

because she is gone

because I am lost

because this precious

day is waning.

There is the ocean of memory

filled with sensation

with laughter

with tenderness and cruelty

and a pinch of bitter and sweet.

There is the ocean

in which I place my body

the briney, waving, cold

that holds me, that

reminds me to swim.