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Get on the Love Train!!
What a fabulous time we had at one of our adult day programs this week as a result of Maria’s thoughtfulness and her constant focus on the people in our Dancing Heart program. While Maria was in Washington, DC she had an opportunity to visit the Smithsonian...
Alice Dancing Under the Gallows
Below is the promo for Alice Dancing Under the Gallows. Official Trailer for new documentary short about the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world, Alice Herz-Sommer. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlccsLr48Mw] Executive Producer: Caroline Stoessinger...
High Adventure
Adventure is never far away when imagination, music, movement, and the spirit of high play are blended in the safe supportive setting of The Dancing Heart. Even wheelchair tightrope walking becomes possible in the service of embodied cognition. ~Peter~
An Ancient Tale
Dancing at Martin Luther Care Center on Monday was lovely. The elders gently warmed up their bodies while rhythmically rowing their boats gently down the stream, twisting gently right to left with their torsos while extending a reaching foot in opposition. Later, we...
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Last night at Loring Park-- Kairos Dance Theatre had a dance rehearsal. What a glorious, gorgeous group of dancers. Our youngest dancer was 4 and our oldest dancer was 80! We began working on a new dance--Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Each adult paired up with a child or...
Kairos Dance Theatre makes a world
Our Executive Director, Maria Genné, wrote an article for Animated , a magazine from the Foundation for Community Dance in the United Kingdom. Below please find the excerpt of the magazine where Maria's article is written. Kairos_Dance_Theatre_makes_a_world-Animated...
It’s Halloween – Let’s do the Monster Mash!!
What a great time of the year for the Dancing Heart program. We have radiant colors on the trees, crunchy leaves under foot, the crisp fall air and Halloween! This week we focused on Halloween stories, costumes, and trick or treat memories. The most fun of all was...
Dancing without words
Today Peter and I danced with a group of elders - some who speak Russian and others who have English as their first language. This was my second time with the group- usually they meet separately but have come together to dance and tell some stories (with...
Dancing With Demeter
Today at ECC we delved into the Greek myth: Persephone and Demeter. The message of this myth is appropriate for elders. Each year we enter into the darkness and emerge into the light in Spring. Our eldest elder Julia played Demeter. Wrapped in a colorful long silk...
The Dancing Heart – Another Breakthrough
For many months we have nurtured a delightful gentleman in one of our adult day programs to encourage him to be more participatory. We understand some people take longer than others to feel comfortable so we took it slowly. At...
The Gift of Story
Working with the elders in The Dancing Heart sites has been a gift to me. Every time I connect with an elder through movement, I learn a little bit about their life story. Whether it's Sandra's shimmy, Tim's fighter fists, Sarah's steady step-together or Bob's upward...
Pack/Check/Go/Show
Performance tomorrow at Dakota County Library's South Robert Trail Branch.http://services.co.dakota.mn.us/forms/libCalendar.aspx?id=64 Better charge the cell phone and camera batteries. Kairos Training Meeting and Staff Meeting in morning followed closely by Dancing...
“Take Me Back to Harlem” rehearsal
We were rehearsing with Ida yesterday in the wooden floored, "TV room," on the main floor of the assisted living apartment building she lives in. Ida has an amazing eye for dance. She was watching Nancy balance in a front "attitude" (the front leg raised is bent)....
Ode To Socks script
One of my favorite poets is Pablo Neruda. I love his poem "Ode To Socks". Socks seem to be a universal item. Thursday at the Redwing Seminary home we came in wearing our most outrageous and colorful socks. We handed out sock puppets with funny faces and yarn hair and...
These Brave Old Dancers Feed My Soul
I feel so overflowing today from dancing with people born in the 1910's, 20's, and 30's. They danced a lot in their heyday. They worked hard, with all the ups and downs that life can bring. Today, they still dance, in rhythm with creation, glad-hearted, brave. My...
Grow/Gather/Give
These days Kairos Dancing Heart programs have been sharing a beautiful dance developed by Nancy to incorporate images of fall harvesting into a body/mind/heart integrating experience called Grow/Gather/Give. This cognitive kinesthetic cornucopia calls on memory and...
High Play
It's Thursday afternoon, a wild rainy day! We are in Lake City facilitating a Dancing Heart session at the Nursing Home. Memories of childhood burst forth; rainy days and not being able to go out and play. The living room becomes an imaginary play ground, the couch a...
Performance in Amery
On Friday, Kairos Dance Theatre performers, Diann, Pat, Nancy, Peter, Carla, Hannah, Maria and company coordinator, Mary, headed to Amery Wisconsin via the rolling hills - seeing, farms, lamas, horses and glorious changing leaves. We shared our interactive performance...