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Be beloved, be a dance ambassador
We are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance. —José Limón I love talking to fellow dancers about their first "dance ambassador." We all generally have favorite first instructors, but often there's an experienced dancer in the community who went out...
The dance is strong magic
The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit. The dance is life.—Pearl Primus Witnessing the lovely "Dance for Justice" crew (pictured above performing choreography by Guy Caridi) at the Shoreline "No Kings" rally last Saturday, I was reminded of an article I'd...
Spring brings sea change to Reverie Ballroom 🫡
Reverie Ballroom CEOs Eliza Wilder (outgoing) and Hallie Kuperman (incoming) You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.—Friedrich Nietzsche Big news last week at Reverie Ballroom, a flagship among Seattle's dance venues, with Eliza Wilder stepping...
Dance is for everyone ☘️
Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain and still succeed. ―Misty Copeland My heavens, the Sinners blues music and dance performance at the Oscars, amirite?! Wow! And in perhaps the most exciting, jaw-dropping moment of all…the exquisitely graceful...
Music & the dance of the cosmic dust
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ―Albert Einstein I've been working my way through the book Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American...
“Hard times require furious dancing”
2026 Stanford Viennese Ball attendees (Richard & Tracey Powers lower left) Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. ―Alice Walker Various thoughts this week... It's just over two years now I've been piloting Seattle Dance Info, with my first email...
The divine frequency of joy
Alysa Liu (Katie Stratman photo) Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency. ― Shah Asad Rizvi Figure skating is not a sport I normally find all that compelling, but I was absolutely captivated this past week...
On Mardi Gras, Music & Dance ⚜️
This is the time when the part of you that is music overcomes the part of you that is silence. This is when music rules the fools. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, ladies and gentlemen, and the good times roll, and you might as well roll with them because there is only...
Love, Obsession & Dance ❤️🔥
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.—Bad Bunny, Super Bowl LX message "Love is everywhere," wrote author Marianne Williamson. She goes on to posit that "Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence." Much...
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