I love to dance/I dance because/Concentrate Better/Born a dancer

Momentum: Conscious Movement
(Last update: 2/2/12)

What's Your Style?

It was watching G dance in a Wednesday night class that inspired this webpage. I imagined a picture of her with the tagline “Plays well with others” next to it. That’s her style. What’s yours?

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Yoko Krueger
Why do you dance?
Because it's my joy. I could feel my soul and body are happy. I'm overwhelmed. If my soul could together with music, it makes me cry.

What are some results you experience from coming to these classes?
I used to dance a lot, almost everyday, but I stopped everything after having kids, I was afraid to start dance again. Because I know I can't stop it myself. 7 years after stopping dance, my friend told me about your class. I don't know why I went to your class. But it was good timing for me. Sunday morning after shutting our front door, I want to skip to my car, then in the car I want to sing a song (not kids song this time). Suddenly life takes on another color (air, music, green, people).

What should we know about you?
I came from Japan 3 years ago. I want to learn English and have friends.

What's your style?
My style........ I love being busy. I want to have beautiful innocent heart forever.

Michael Philips
Why do you dance?
I love to dance for many reasons. It helps me to discover and express what I'm feeling (sometimes without knowing it). It opens avenues to joy, helps me to recognize and discharge anger and anxiety, and, at times, deeply to experience my sadness. Dance grounds me and puts me in touch with my best ("higher") self. It is a wonderful form of artistic expression, which is something I value highly for it's own sake. It's a great way to relate to other people: direct, connective, playful, imaginative, cooperative, artistic and sometimes sensual and intimate. It creates a community feeling--when I enter a room filled with other dancers I feel as if I'm home, and it almost always feel goods to encounter fellow dancers on the street. Dance is an on-going learning experience that just keeps getting richer. And it's great exercise.

What else do you do?
I'm a retired philosophy professor. I continue to write philosophy, now more for a general audience of intelligent, literate people than for an academic audience. I also do performance art, write performance art pieces, and belong to two performance art groups (both based on the work of Scott Kelman). And I'm a semi-serious photographer.

What's your style?
I'm happy to remain mysterious.

Michael's latest book, The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Lies, Shams, and Delusions can be found at Powell’s Bookstore.

Georgiana Nehl
Why do you dance?
I dance because it is the best, more enjoyable, most informative, most insightful and revealing thing I do (in public) with my body. It unites all of my interests: of having a contemplative physical practice, of getting good use out of this bodily form I have been blessed with, and of having an arena to "play well with others", as well as to play in my solo world in the company of others. Dance is the most wonderful 3D thing I can imagine doing. And dance has no boundaries. This practice has allowed me to fully understand that paradox that everything IS dance and everything is movement, and that brings joy to my life (in a way no other thing that even smelled the least bit like "exercise" has ever done, even yoga).

What are some results you experience from coming to these classes?
I concentrate better (and I was pretty good at that to begin with). I feel far more in touch with every little aspect of my body. I clear out my emotions and the psychic debris with greater efficiency than anything else I have done or can imagine doing. And I learn a different twist on cooperativeness, especially on the non-verbal level and of being in a cooperative community, without managers.

What should we know about you?
I dance without my glasses, so don't take it personally if I look like I am ignoring you, I may not be able to even see if you are looking at me. If you want to get to know me, you might have to get brave enough to come up and introduce yourself. I may look like I am dancing in my own world, in fact I may even BE dancing in my own world, but hopefully I do not bite. If you are interested, come find out.

What's your style?
Plays well with others.

Pamela Church

Why do you dance?
I dance to become bigger.

What else do you do?
I garden because I have to and because I love it like none other.

What should we know about you?
My favorite person in concert is Ani Difranco.

What's your style?
My partner and I laugh a lot.

Joe McLaughlin
Why do you dance?
I guess I was born a dancer, and still am a dancer, and always will be a dancer. Dance takes me deeper into the essence of who I am, who you are, to what freak'in is. My soul in motion. Falling in love over and over. Self discovery and rediscovery of that sacred breath, that sacred heartbeat. Tears, sadness, joy, laughter, stillness, wild swinging, thumping, all part of this crazy thing we call life. Souls in Motion, so beautiful, so always perfect, always changing, always moving. Could it be heaven on earth. It would really suck if when you died and asked God where heaven is and he said, "You were just there." So keep dancing and don't stop!

What are some results you experience from coming to these classes?
Sanity in times of crisis, moving forward in my life's journey, soul and heart nourishment, connectedness with fellow dancing soul travelers, release, breaking down personal barriers, opening doors to a new way of being, touch, touch, touch, that so holy metamorphosis of two embodied spirits.

What else do you do?
I love to garden, its my life's work. Nature is my palette, always happy to be mixed up with it. Studied horticulture as therapy. Loved working that mode with kids at the children’s hospital, and elders. It's powerful medicine. Love to play sports of any kind, or really just love to play, love to run.

What are you on about these days?
Bringing the world to my recently paralyzed son, health care reform, the election, state of the world, solar and wind power.

What's your style?
Hot, sweaty, wet, close, Brietenbush, slow, sweet, quiet, close, tango, the sand.