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Image credit: Gina Greenlee, paint, ink, marker, collage An excerpt from Free Play, Improvisation in Life and Art  by Stephen Nachmanovitch: “I have never ceased to be astounded at the power of writing, music making, drawing, or dance to pull me out of sadness, disappointment, depression, bafflement. I am not talking about entertainment or distraction, but of playing, dancing, drawing, writing my way through and out. This process resembles the best in psychotherapy. We don’t

Image credit: Gina Greenlee, Pinterest Mary said, “you need grounding before you take this big trip around the world .” So, she coached me to “create-destroy-recreate” art pieces for 30 consecutive days in the months leading up to the trip. Minimal instruction, no elaborate context, only “ Try it and see what happens. ” Image credit: Gina Greenlee, quick fashion magazine collage Always playing with art , I was open to possibility in the moment without having to know what came

Image credit: Gina Greenlee, paint and ink   An excerpt from Free Play, Improvisation in Life and Art  by Stephen Nachmanovitch: “Precisely because the standing of posterity is so tenuous, art is now more relevant than it has ever been. And again, I mean not just art but artfulness: playfulness, seriousness, connectedness, structure, wholeness and heart… “…This means an explosion of creativity into areas of life where it has been largely excluded. Looking at international pol

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African American Studies Professor Dr. Daniel Black treated graduates to an EXPERIENCE  at the 2024 Spring Commencement Ceremonies at Clark Atlanta University.

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Stunning Butoh choreography by Toru Shimazaki.

Excerpt from Art Heals , The Shaman Within:   Students and colleagues over the years have repeatedly asked certain questions that have...

I didn’t know it was possible to dance that fast and not break anything. Amazing!

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A breathtaking excerpt from “Le Parc,” the ballet created for the Opéra de Paris in 1994 by French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj .   ◊...

“9. Begin Anywhere. John Cage  tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.” ...

Image credit: Cats, the musical In one of his most viewed TED Talks, the late Ken Robinson told a story  that deeply resonated worldwide:...

Image Credit: Gisela Photographie at Pixabay “What is universal is the human propensity to create order out of chaos.” Anthony Storr,...

Ahh, enjoy the incredibly fertile and breakthrough power of the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states , the half-asleep periods just before...

Dairakudakan is a butoh  performance art company founded and led by MARO Akaji , a celebrated butoh dancer , as well as a choreographer,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqU2tcfwIY Ideas are like mice in your house: you know they are there, you don’t know when you’re going...