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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

1/21/17 Mystic, mythic news reporter Caroline Kasey reframes our trauma and suffering as “our beautiful, dangerous assignment.” I love this. It helps me to see our problems from a larger, much wiser, and more workable perspective. Yes, there are many … Continue reading →

It’s been a number of years since I’ve written something for this blog. Like many of us since the 2016 national election, I’m experiencing an awakening. There is both the rude awakening to the terrifying scope of prejudice, ignorance, and capacity … Continue reading →