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Be funky, be free! 🤓

Be funky, be free! 🤓

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.—Martha Graham “The more I move,” says Japan’s “dancing salaryman”, Toru Utsumi, “the more my spirit rises, and I start feeling good.” Utsumi was featured in...
Dancin’ Etiquette

Dancin’ Etiquette

What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will NOT dance with you, I’ll see you in hell first.—Dorothy Parker, Complete Stories The realization struck me, some years ago, that I’d learned to tread lightly when accidentally...
Dance is medicine

Dance is medicine

Tap Dancer Evan Ruggiero (Dance Magazine) Dance is medicine. Movement is potent. Empower yourself with it today.—Amy Leigh Mercree My morning ritual generally includes sweeping floors, given my small cat sheds like a molting bison. Two Thursdays ago, while bending...
Great dancing engages the heart

Great dancing engages the heart

Good dancing engages the brain. Great dancing engages the heart.—Len Goodman “Dance is a multidimensional physical activity of psychosocial nature.” That mouthful came from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, publishing a study from Western Sydney...
Be the welcome you want to see

Be the welcome you want to see

She’s the first person to smile at me today.The first to make me feel wanted.Understood.I blink back tears.It’s unknown how many students’ liveslibrarians have savedby welcoming loners at lunch.—Lisa Fipps, Starfish “The first two dances I went...