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Live Circle Dance with Brian Steere |
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Last Updated : Site Revision History is now HERE News in brief New article: Reflections on the Spirit of Dance - Easter Monday in Norwich was truly a blessing. A new dance came through me - in my kitchen - for Prodonemi Agapi - a bright Greek song composed by Mikis Theodorakis and sung by Maria Farantouri. It is unproven as yet but having found the dance I then found the song translates as betrayed love! Yet it is sung in a spirit of freedom and so is the dance. Life and dance are very well with me. I'm enjoying sharing some new to me dances learned via Folk Dance teachers but its the quality of the flow that is the joy and not necessarily the dances themselves - though of course they express the context in which they are shared. I am considering setting up a yahoo group to share circle (and folk dance) related info. This can be wide ranging in scope and include relevant event notices. Links to sites of interest, question and answers relating to anything about the dances or the music associated with the dances. These are open forums that can be interacted via web browser and or emails. There is no cost and the entries are archived so as to become a resource of information. It would be a public forum where it can be discovered to any who are drawn to participate. If you are interested in this please let me know. I am also looking at a wiki for circle and folk dance - as used in Wikipedia. Any resource that I set up would be used by all for the benefit of all who love the dance, and offer a structure through which we may participate as we desire. If moderation was required it would be to clean up after genuine mistakes, spammers or remind participants to be respectful in event of disagreement. This function would be shared. I have swapped with Jane regarding Sheringham group: I will now run the 2nd Friday in each month and Jane will run the 4th Friday in each month. Dancing the New Year in at Hempton initiated a NEW monthly group at a lovely hall. See Calendar for Dates. I have made a list of dances danced and will keep this up for forthcoming dance meets. One of these was a new dance I made to Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. I gave a few nods in it to Peter Briabers' version which I tried over the years with various groups but it didn't really take. I also love to sing this so I will midwife this or an evolution of this dance in hope to inspire the dancers to want to dance it frequently! Our local Christmas circle was lovely. I made a dance for the Huron Carol I have written about this and some other recent dances I made in my Dance Blog "Dancing the New Year In" on Sat Jan 3rd. a.m and p.m sessions or full day. Dancing in the Heart at The White House next is Sunday 8th Feb. I will be running Kate's sessions at the White House, as well as my own, until further notice. I have created new dances to "What are they doing in Heaven today?" - which is a Be Good Tanyas version of a traditional Gospel song, and "Farewell Shallabye" by 'No Blues' - which fuses a cool blues sound with sinuous Arabic tones into Arabicana. I also made a simple but enjoyable dance to Drive the Cold Winter Away - which is a folksy Old Carol one can sing with gusto, fervour and jollity. I'd love to help it find your feet and have just put the chords and lyrics and steps onto the Resource page. If you cant sing it then the version by Horslips works well though that is instrumental and not so seasonal. (But still lovely). So far this year we have enjoyed dancing at: Norwich Cathedral Cromer Pier on a sunny day. What a treat. Dance Camp Wales.(After an 11 year absence). Dance Camp North. Wonderful but wet. Workshop with Freidel Kloke-Eibl - my comments Easter Teacher Gathering Youlgreave in May. Live public dance as part of a local environmental event at Pensthorpe. Dance days and regular groups at Norwich and Sheringham. The Circle Dance network is wide and varied in its scope and emphasis but love of music and dance joins us all. Contact Grapevine - for access to the network newsletter.
Joy is the light in which the truth of us is clearly visible. Hide not your joy under a bushel - and then complain that the world is dark! |
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I share • Fortnightly at the White House in Norwich • Friends Meeting House in Sheringham on the 2nd Friday (afternoon) of each calendar month. And Monthly at Hempton on Saturday afternoon. And at other booked events. |
I am willing to travel to you with live song and dance as a shared inspiration. Would you like to invite me to your area or with your group? Would you like to explore joining me in singing or playing music for live dance in your area? I remain willing to come out to existing groups on an expenses and donation basis and join with young or old at whatever level of ability and intention is desired - be it a social event, such as party, wedding or funeral, Church or common interest groups, schools or those with special needs, meditaors, yoga groups, groups working for peace of social change, MP's. Mums and toddlers. Prisoners. |
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Making music and singing for circle dance is like no other music making that I know contact me. |
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Thought for the Moment If you are interested in discovering new solutions for humanity that have more depth than problem solving - in terms the past dictates. More potency than from associating with good ideas that remain ideas, then I invite you to consider sharing an experience of simple music and shared dancing in a spirit of trust and inclusion. If people do not find a way to join together in common then they are not yet choosing for their peace and wellbeing. If we rely on a common 'enemy' or 'problem' to join us then we continue to join in mere self interest rather than enlightened Self interest. Problems are indeed an alarm call to wake up - but waking is not a doomsday script, but is pausing and listening within. Rejoin the Music of life and be restored to the dance. What is always needed is to regain and maintain perspective by bringing the focus from the head to the heart. Not the head based heart of emotions based upon pictures that distort - but the heart that recognises truth and can discern and guide truly. Stillness is the way to allow the heart to rise - you could say - the Now to rise. But stillness is not merely quietitude - but the release of conflictedness. Circle dance offers a moving meditation and can be tailored to suit the occasion. Spirituality is moving us beyond the old labels and is finding structures that invite the freedom to simply be at rest and in joy together. To hold such conditions for each other. To give as we would receive. To be inspiring, our music and dance needs to be inspired. Or else we neglect to join except at the level of appearances - and become self-referencing in exclusion rather than recognising a greater self via inclusion. Such new life cannot be assembled out of parts or applied techniques - but must express inspiration and grounded enthusiasm. It is perhaps normal for us to not know how it could be that we who are seemingly so different could share and find a communion that is truly joyful. Because it is normal for us to 'think' from a position of separatedness. By joining in sharing a simple experience with willingness and a natural enthusiasm, we step out of such thinking and have a living connecting perspective in which we discern rather than judge. It's all very simple - but very easy to forget and become mired again in loveless thinking. Such is the human habit and this is the work: to become consistent in choosing for our peace and joy and learn to step out of the mind that is so adept at justifying exclusion. It seems a tall order - and old habits run deeper than we yet realize, but to remember to express caring - now is to include yourself in the circle of your own heart.
Brian - Dec 09 |
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In willingness to join with each other, we may become aware of being joined with at a deeper level of ourselves than we had any sense of in our usual daily preoccupations. Sharing a purpose is to share a mind. Healing the mind is to restore it to the calm clear appreciation of connectedness. A sense of unworthiness in self or other is an underlying obstacle to Fullness of Life Now! Thinking - is not the way to peace where joy abides. Sharing music and dance does shift us to a joy-based and present perspective if we bring such willingness and intent. |
What is it for? The intention that we hold will be the determiner of what it is for us. I use the dance as a vehicle for joy and see it as a part of joy based living. To be in joy based living is being out from a present felt aliveness whose language is not words - nor steps but this presence can be felt through whatever forms we use. Dancing in the heart is to let what is inside be felt and to trust and flow freely in its movement. "And every step of life will gently bring you home" ~ (Mystic Spiral Lyric) |
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Clearlight Cards : Cards and prints from photos I have taken - mostly from around where I live with Cathi at Wells-next-the-Sea. We walk often in the beauty of the world.
We are surrounded by the wonderful but tend to experience our thoughts and concepts as our first environment. To stop or still the mind that makes endless commentary or story is to awaken to the unspeakable intimacy of being. But see how the mind tends to veil the glimpse or limit it to hardly an instant before 'normal service is resumed'! It takes practice of true desire and a yielding into or allowing of the moment - just as it is - to abide in connectedness as well as through apparent disconnection. Thus it is perhaps ironic that I should take photographs! But my intent is to yield into a process in which the 'I' is no less an instrument than the camera - and serves a presence that knows in stillness. Its a feeling thing. We like to connect and remain connected with many who we dont have time or circumstance to write, phone or visit very often. Cards can serve to carry a vibrational greeting that is consciously felt within the relationship. If you use cards to communicate or enjoy prints in your rooms or as gifts - I invite you to consider my work: Clearlight Cards |
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