How to Gather Nectar
Bees pollinate flowers, right? So so some moths, and a few other insects. The flowers get to reproduce, and the bees get food. Symbiosis! Symbiosis
How to Spark your Personal Style
I’m struck by how many of us welcome the opportunity to step outside of our normal box. I hear from many dancers relishing new ways
How to Make an Entrance
A while back I mentioned the complex Arabic orchestral music that used to really throw me for a loop. One of our more complex genres
How to Fill the Well
We’ve been through a strange time over the last year and a half. Okay, the last five years. And it’s hitting us all differently. Out
How to kill creativity
Imagine you give a kid a cute little toy. It lights up, spins around, the whole deal. Then imagine you spend half an hour explaining
AND. The Secret of Improvisation
There are spaces in the music for changes to happen. Theses spaces come between verses and choruses, between lines and phrases, and even the spaces
It’s not what you do….
Moves are like boxes.
What’s important is what’s inside them. The more engaged a dancer is—the more they have something to say, some gift they put inside the box—the more engaging they are to watch…
How to Learn Musicality (and why it is possible)
It’s been 49 days since my mother’s passing. I was fortunate that I could visit her in the last few months, to have a funeral,
Musicality: Expressing Nuance
In 2010 I saw this improv jazz ensemble at Barbés, a tiny little club in Brooklyn. The musicians were an eclectic assortment rather than an established
Understanding musical structure
Back before Google, some friends and I went to a dance event in Montreal for a week. I got a map of the city from
How Belly Dance is like–Clogging?!
This post is from 2015, when I accompanied Tamalyn Dallal on a road trip to gather material for a film. Tamalyn Dallal’s project, “Pockets of
With love to all in challenging times
In good news, I was delighted to be a guest on Creativity coach Michele Jennae‘s Old Soul Archaeology podcast! We had a wonderful time talking about