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"...and I could not tell the
dancer from the dance.".
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I have been asked a goodly number
of times
if I would, please, write
The Book of the Dance, the Story
of the Dance.
The following evolving list of dances
and their graphically represented
choreography
is a beginning towards that end.
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It should be kept in mind, however,
that
I am much more the poet than
the historian.
Much like when I facilitate a posture
flow in one of my yoga sessions,
I use words (the druidic vapors)
to bring forth in the individuals
present
a true experience of the posture
- of their own body, heart and
soul
- rather than to lecture upon who
may or may not have created the posture
and who considers what to be the
correct form.
So, too, with the Dance.
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The Story of The Dance is a Living
Story.
It is more in the cool starry night
than in the cool rooms of the library;
it is more in the Living Heart
of your tender self
than in the correct metered beat
of a certain era in a certain time.
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The Direct Experience of one's
own heart, emotions, mind and body,
of one's own joy, grief and ocean
of life
is the opportunity I attempt to
cultivate
when facilitating a circle,
be it in the medium of story, yoga,
gardening,
music, wildcrafting or dance.
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Here below is the evolving list
of dances in the Sacred Circle Dance vocabulary.
Within the text of each dance you
will find the origins, history
and also pieces to the Story of
the Dance.
I should mention that The Story
of The Dance, as presented here,
is a work of my own creation
where-in I am using hypertext as
medium for a new art form.
You may either stay within the
simple list of dances and choreography
or
you may wander off into what is
becoming hundreds of pages
in labyrinthine form
of this very personal Story of
The Dance.
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As time allows I will be adding
dances to
the list and more background and
texture to the dances already posted.
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If you wish to deepen in the general
background
of the Nature of The Dance in
the context of the Union of Living
Sacred Time and Sacred Space, then
Enter Here.
Other wise,
to browse the list and choreography
as interest leads you.
Come
through this door
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