http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

I just saw the documentary, "Life in a Day."  Made from videos submitted to YouTube by thousands of people, it is a crafted snapshot of life from around the world on one day - July 24, 2010.  One interesting way to broaden the perspective on life away from home...

Dancers & scientist ... dance as a way to solve even more complex problems in the world... yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDWRZ7IYqw&feature=player_embedded#!

Youssou N'Dour w/ Aziz Faye + Riche Faye @ UCLA '07: Beugue dou Bagne:

http://youtu.be/0-96O9gvAN4

2011 National Book Award Winners:

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2011.html

Review of Emily Johnson/Catalyst - Exploration With Myth, Memory and Movement

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/arts/dance/emily-johnson-catalyst-in-the-thank-you-bar-review.html?ref=dance

Review of “Target: :furnace,” featuring my friend, dancer Marya Wethers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/dance/target-furnace-at-chocolate-factory-review.htm

Maya Deren on time forms, on her art making, and on female artists:

http://youtu.be/MhEOOpbJKEc

Simone Forti: Explorations, With Nature as Her Guide

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/arts/dance/simone-forti-at-the-roulette-theater-review.html?ref=dance

Heartwarming:

http://screen.yahoo.com/father-daughter-dance-medley-27138015.html

I just saw Compagnie Käfig at City Center's Fall for Dance.  Consistent use of the water cups yielded satisfying visual, structural images and underscored the theme, Agwa (by French hip hop choreographer, Mourad Merzouki:
http://youtu.be/0fTtPrrKEPo


Compagnie Käfig opened Fall for Dance's "International Program."  Other companies that followed included:

Royal Ballet of Flanders, The Return of Ulysses.  Strong cast of male suitors and female lead; their use of weight and gestural vocabulary were highlights:
http://youtu.be/ISa3mm08CQs

TAO Dance Theater, Weight x 3: weight, rhythm, grace, strength, form...
http://youtu.be/UMU4NKVfWZk

Lizt Alfonso Danza Cuba: precision, live music...
http://youtu.be/J0lVqyLL8m4

Flash mob meets meditation:

Sitting is Peace

Meditation Flashmob

4pm, Sunday November 6, Union Square [by George Washington Statue]

Join Buddhist Monks and Nuns [from Blue Cliff and Deer Park and Plum Village] and an ecletic mix of strangers for 30 minutes of sitting meditation, enjoying peace and togetherness.

 

http://communityofmindfulnessnewyorkmetro.blogspot.com/ 

Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance opening in Brooklyn January 2012:
http://www.cumbedance.com/cumbe-news/

From PBS

Documentary about Bill T. Jones' creative process for the making of A Good Man:

http://video.pbs.org/video/12524242/


About Black Grace dance company:
http://video.pbs.org/video/2088066169/#


loopdiver: The Journey of a Dance The Creation of an Experimental Dance
(the making of a multimedia pc. by Troika Ranch)
http://video.pbs.org/video/2084065913/

‘Women Doing Literary Things’ is no less than a radical act. To write. To speak. To Collectivize.
Let the parts we thoughts were solos give rise to a swelling chorus.” - Sayantani DasGupta

Yes!

Connect to Women Doing Literary Things blog post DasGupta:
http://literarywomen.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/writing-our-bodies-embodiment-voice-and-literature-by-sayantani-dasgupta/

Ashes and Snow: (by Gregory Colbert)

These images are blowing my mind right now... I am moved...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSX444hQ5Vo