PERSONAL DETAILS

  Favorite Things   Alter Egos   Quotes to Live By
  Dance   Pets    Websites

              

    These are a few of my favorite things:

 

    My alter egos:

 

    Quotes to live by:

 

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"Do all you can, with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are."

--- Nkosi Johnson, age 12, died of AIDS in 2001

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When the law of an eye for an eye operates,

all the people will end up blind.

        -- Bishop Desmond Tutu

 

 

I would be true, for there are those who trust me.

I would be pure, for there are those who care.

I would be strong, for there is much to suffer.

I would be brave, for there is much to dare.

           -- Howard A. Walter (1906)

 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep.

        -- Robert Frost

 

    What I do from the other half of my brain:

Ballet and contemporary dance, in which I began training with Gayle McKinney Griffith in 1996. My next big project is multifaceted. I’m working with Marcia Heintzberger from the IU-South Bend E. M. Raclin School of the Arts a collaboration that brings together professionals across disciplines and nation lines.

  I’m the psychologist, Marcia is the choreographer; we will be  joined by a sculptor and a painter from here in South Bend. The creative directors of Fountainhead Tanz Theatre have been invited to join us from Berlin, Germany.

  The project tells a story about the Life-Death-Life cycle using dance, visual arts, a book, and a video. It’s all about psychospiritual survival, for individuals and for the society. The paintings and sculpture will be the backdrop, adding textures and dimensions that even location shots could not provide. 

  The book-dance connection is what truly excites me. The dancers will spring to life out of the artwork and the accompanying book is the narrative that weaves the story together. I've been writing from my head my entire my career.  Now I get to write from my heart.

  In addition to my being the psychologist involved with writing the book, I’m one of the principal dancers. How did I get into this, I often wonder in hour 4 of another 6-hour rehearsal. As if I don’t have challenges aplenty, I have to get on camera and risk (literally) falling flat on my face??!? But you know what? It’s fun. It really is. And I still look pretty damn good up there in my unitard, even if I do say so myself.

 

    Pets:

A colony of finches. They don't have names, though they do have personalities. The people at the pet shop told me they could all co-exist and not make little birdies unless I put special nesting materials in the cage. The people at the pet shop LIED!!

I once had a three-legged cat named Draggin'. He became a member of the family in 1996 when he was 8 weeks old.  He'd always had only three legs though he got into mischief aplenty nonetheless. I found him a new home in 2004. He'd gotten old and set in his ways while my lifestyle had become more nomadic and unpredictable. The mix was not pretty. He needed a quiet 9-5, Monday-Friday home which I was able to find for him.

 

 

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