Dancing til Dusk, Hing Hay Park July 30, 2026 (Constance Brinkley photo) Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. —Ludwig van Beethoven Using half a dozen metal singing bowls, our family friend, Trevor, performed a sound bath last Monday...

Dancing til Dusk, Hing Hay Park (Constance Brinkley photo) What we need to do is convince people that every single body is a dancing body. —Peter Lovatt, dance psychologist and former professional dancer Back in 2025, my post — Warning: Dance may be...

Isadora Duncan and Mata Hari The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music...Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. —Charles Baudelaire “The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” So said Mata Hari who, in the early 1900s, became a...

I hear the music, I feel the beatAnd for a moment, when I'm dancing, I am free—Free, Florence + The Machine(from the album Dance Fever, also containing the song Choreomania) Around this time of year in 1374 — June 24 to be exact — a dancing plague gripped the town of...

Whither shall I dance? Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.— Martha Beck "What would motivate you to go out dancing more often?" was a question posted in an online forum. In the poster's scenario, the community had good...

Pelé performing the bicycle kick Football is an art, like dancing. It requires whole-hearted concentration.— Arsène Wenger [football aka soccer] "O Jogo Bonito," a Portugese phrase popularized by the Brazilian footballer Pelé, is a reference to soccer (as we  in...

A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning.— Pamela Brown Before I started dancing, around the turn of the century, I was under the impression ballrooms and dance gatherings were largely a thing of the...

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.— Saint Francis de Sales Whatever your feelings on basketball, one must admit the graceful game four tip-in by OG Anunoby of the champion New York Knicks was a beauty to behold. How a...

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.— Jane Austen Peak wedding season, I've read, is May through October. A couple's "first dance" is one of my favorite types of private lessons, as I'm a sentimental sap and invariably moved to tears...