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.

Alzheimer's Poetry Project

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

Picasso! Rousseau! Van Gogh! This "art cheer," celebrates the 3 artists highlighted during the Dec. 13th, 2011, session of Meet Me at MoMA. The session was co-lead by Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community and Access Programs and APP director Gary Glazner.

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.

TimeSlips Story Telling

TimeSlips opens storytelling to everyone by replacing the pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine. The open, poetic language of improvisational storytelling invites people with dementia to express themselves and connect with others.

Songwriting Works

Singers & Songwriters of the Jewish Home of San Francisco perform their song "I'm 100 Year Old" with Judith-Kate Friedman (project director/guitar) and Daniel Hoffman (violin) at the Art of Aging festival. Backstage they meet dance pioneer Anna Halprin who shares some thoughts on aging. (See the full Art of Aging video for Halprin's performance.)