You Too can Honour Frank Shawl in your own Home!

Our beloved teacher, mentor, friend, choreographer, community leader, elder, and all around super-mensch Frank Shawl passed on last month. Frank was an important person for so many of us. He played a number of very important roles in the founding … Continue reading

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Honouring Frank Shawl

Our dear friend, collaborator, mentor, teacher, and all-around super mensch Frank Shawl passed on last month. We at Dandelion Dancetheater continue to reflect on how much he’s meant to us. REFLECTIONS ON FRANK SHAWL’S MEMORIAL – BY CO-DIRECTOR ERIC KUPERS … Continue reading

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The Dharma of OCD – Part 1

The Dharma of OCD – Part I (Please Note: What follows is a first draft of this exploration. Feedback and discussion of these issues is much appreciated.)   I have been living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for at least 30 … Continue reading

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Calling On Our Ancestors #1

1/21/17   CALLING ON OUR ANCESTORS #1   Artist-Ancestors, I call on you now. Creative Subversives! Experimental Activists! Truth-tellers! Travelers of Mysterious Paths! Weirdoes and Wild Folk! Outsiders and Rebels! Artist-Ancestors, I call on you now. We’re in trouble.   … Continue reading

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And So it Begins…Our Beautiful, Dangerous Assignments, Part VII

1/21/17 INCLUSION Oneness is true inclusion. Oneness means that every shape, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, cultural background, economic class, and human experience is equally important and equally valid. It means that our differences are beautiful and they have … Continue reading

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And So it Begins…Our Beautiful, Dangerous Assignments, Part VI

1/21/17 ALL TOGETHER NOW!  The struggle we are involved in, that threatens our basic human rights, that proposes oppression and discrimination, that looks and feels like the beginning of a fascist dictatorship, is never going to be completely over. This … Continue reading

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And So it Begins…Our Beautiful, Dangerous Assignments, Part V

1/21/17 FAMILY PORTRAIT Donald Trump is part of our human family. We don’t get to choose our biological family. And we don’t get to choose our human family. They are givens. And we might not like them and might commit … Continue reading

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And So it Begins…Our Beautiful, Dangerous Assignments, Part IV

HOW DID WE GET HERE? AND WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?  I think it’s very important for us to examine how we got to this point. Of course, the factors of any such event are much too complex for us to … Continue reading

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And So it Begins…Our Beautiful, Dangerous Assignments, Part III

1/21/17 PRIVILEGE AND LOSS There are countless ways of seeing our current predicament. At one level, this seems to be a wake-up call to the amount of separation, disconnection, fear and confusion that has continued to exist in our human … Continue reading

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And So it Begins…Our Beautiful, Dangerous Assignments, Part II

1/21/17 THIS HAS HAPPENED. I’ve been repeating the phrase, “This has happened,” over and over like a mantra since the 2016 presidential election. I still don’t quite believe it. The unfurling horror of it all has such a bizarre and … Continue reading

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