by Ivan Wyvan | Jan 21, 2016 | Dance
WE ARE DANCERS Experiencing inertia, our fullness is empty. Experiencing ecstasy, our emptiness is full. Hearts open, we step out of our own way And the Presence enters the pregnant space, Moving our bodies in unexpected ways… For we are Dancers. After each movement,...
by Ivan Wyvan | Nov 10, 2015 | Dance, True Stories
Initiated by Gabrielle Roth In the summer of 1987 I was persuaded by my partner at the time to take part in a 5-day dance workshop led by an awesome shamanic dancer called Gabrielle Roth. At the time, I was emphatically not a dancer, and habitually avoided such...
by Ivan Wyvan | Nov 4, 2015 | Dance
The Dance of Life By Ivan McBeth Nearly 30 years ago my partner at the time dragged me fighting and screaming to a 5 -day dance workshop led by a remarkable person called Gabrielle Roth. My first impressions of her were of a thin, willowy woman dressed in a black...
by Ivan Wyvan | Apr 13, 2015 | Dance
Ecstatic Dance Part 1: Introduction William Shakespeare the great Bard once said that life is a stage, and we are all actors on that stage. Likewise, to a dancer, all life is a dance, and we are all dancers. Life itself is the dance arena, and our task in life is to...
