Sunday, June 3, 2012
Kairos Dancing Heart
The Mission of Kairos Dance Theatre is to share the joy of dance and unleash its power to nurture and heal. We believe there are many ways of dancing, and that each person has his or her own dance to share and story to tell. Kairos uses dance and storytelling to create a sense of community and well-being in participants of all ages and walks of life. For more information, go to www.kairosdance.org.
Meet Me at MoMA- Starry Night Poem
Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night," served as the inspiration for the creation of this poem at the Dec. 13th 2011, Meet Me at MoMA session. We explored the painting through out senses. We asked a series of questions around how the painting made us feel. We focused on the stars imagining how stars might taste, sound and smell. The groups answers form the lines of the poem. Francesca Rosenberg, MoMA Director of Community and Access Programs and Gary Glazner, APP director lead the group in a "call and response," performance of the newly created poem.
Art Cheer
Carolyn Gregory
This performance with 87 year old Carolyn Gregory of the "Purple Cow Poets," took place at the Summerset Festival of the Arts on 7/30/11 in Baraboo, WI. The Purple Cow Poets are an affiliate of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project and members of the Sauk County Writer's Group.
Ocean Poem
The poem "Ocean," was inspired by
Tristin Lowe's artwork Mocha Dick, which appears courtesy of the artist
in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop, The West Collection, and
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, PA. We started the session by performing:
"Catch a Little Rhyme," by Eve Merriam; "Whopper!" by Jack Prelutsky and
sections of "The World below the Brine," by Walt Whitman; "The Whale,"
by Hilaire Belloc; and "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville. To create the
poem we asked open ended questions around what the ocean would smell,
taste, look, sound, and feel like. We imagined encounters with whales
and improvised during the poem.
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