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Creating in Community

By Deanna Selene | July 14, 2013 |

Something happens when we get together to create. What could otherwise remain static begins to evolve organically. A co-mingling that forever alters the recipe. Chemicals react. There is a sense of something building, bubbling. The unpredictable. That which cannot entirely be controlled. Nor should it.

Embracing Intimacy: Conversation with Sexuality Coach Kelly Rees, Portland, Oregon

By Deanna Selene | June 23, 2013 |

Just as every element in a dream can be seen as reflecting a different aspect of the dreamer, so also Kelly Rees feels that fantasies can work the same way.

A Poet Talks About Fatherhood

By Deanna Selene | June 15, 2013 |

It happened quite naturally. I liked to quote lines of poetry for them. Once when we were visiting the Atlantic coast and watching the waves crash and the sea spray spouting up, I quoted a favorite line from Hart Crane’s poem, “The Dance”: “what laughing chains the waters wove and threw.” My children never forgot that. Several years later when looking at another wild body of water, they would remind me of that same line.

BodyVox Celebrates Fifteen Years of Innovative Dance

By Deanna Selene | April 24, 2013 |

“I think the key is to pay attention when those ideas do come. If you ignore them, they don’t come as quickly the next time. They say, ‘You’re not friendly to us.’ So then you have to spend time rebuilding the universe’s trust. With creativity, just like everything else, you have to keep working at it. There’s ability, and then there’s craft. Craft involves homework. And just doing it. And doing it. So we work a lot on our craft.”
~Jamey Hampton, dancer, choreographer, co-founder with wife Ashley Rowland of BodyVox

Dorianne Laux: “All Poetry is Preparation for Death”

By Deanna Selene | April 21, 2013 |

“Poetry allows us access to the quotidian mysteries. It allows us to revere the miracle of our lives as we live them, so that when death comes, we’ll be grateful.”
~Dorianne Laux, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Maureen Manley: It’s not about being better than everyone else. “We are all extraordinary.”

By Deanna Selene | February 2, 2013 |

“Feeling sadness for what you’ve lost is necessary and important. But you can get stuck. That loss can become a story that perpetuates itself. There is more to you than that.”

~~Silver & bronze medalist, Maureen Manley, talks about what makes us truly special, which no one can take away.

Linda Arkelian, ballet dancer, instructor, Vancouver, British Columbia

By Deanna Selene | December 1, 2012 |

“Our culture now has become fixated on technology and materialistic goals that entice our sons away from the arts. The question is: How can we wean our boys away from computer games and keep them engaged in relationships and authentic communication of emotion?”

'Combustus'....What happens when creative and inquisitive minds come together.