Entries Tagged as ‘dance’

August 17, 2008

On the Banks of Rivers Past: the Windiad no. 6

The Ghosts of the Past
The reason Odysseus knew so much about Helios’s cattle and Charybdis and Scylla was because he consulted with Tiresias. Tiresias was a blind prophet who was consulted by everyone. At one point he dressed in drag for 7 years. Basically, he was a unique character. He gave [...]

April 4, 2008

Rooftop, My Favorite Soap Opera Character

The Trickster
Of all the archetypes that Carl Jung wrote about, and later Joseph Campbell outlined in his masterpiece of myth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I most identified with the trickster. This might be why April Fool’s Day is my favorite holiday. It’s also my dear friend, Jerry McGill’s birthday.
Fittingly, Jerry has [...]

October 29, 2007

Salsa Stories and Other Condiments

Dipping into Salsa
I first started dancing salsa in 1995, when a fellow modern dancer came back from Cuba and showed me some moves. It was easy learning the basic step, and being a good improviser I was able to convincingly approximate the look of salsa. But it was years before I was [...]