How to Improvise for Oriental Dance
Stuck in choreography? Wish your students could improvise? Wish you could improvise? Dancers are often afraid to improvise, preferring the safety of choreography. Yet improv
How to Learn (and Teach!) Improvisation
It’s been raining a lot this Spring. It was a long crappy winter, and the Spring was no better. Recently we’ve had some lovely days,
How to go far, fast.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a group.” This is supposedly a South African proverb;
How to Give Back to the Dance
Last week, we saw how Kongtrul Rinpoche explained the difference between Hope and Prayer. Rinpoche did not express much hope for Hope. He is Tibetan,
The Difference Between Hope and Prayer
The third incarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche died in a car crash in 1992. He was only 38. I was fortunate enough to hear him
How to Have Your Own Style
(This was the Day 47 Love Note from 90 Days 2018) I saw a Frank Zappa piece back in the 70s in which the musicians’
