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Top FesTIVals of 2012 • MATheMAGical dance floors CONSCIOUS SUMMER 2012 ISSUE#19 movement for a better world DANCER CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP Are you feeling your calling? Nine dynamic mentors share their insights along the path. Powerful Guides Lyrical Clothing plus Designers of dancewear hear the call of the muse 52 Weeks on Camera Voice Activated Solar Love Your message is received when you rock the wireless Ubuntu Stands for Peace Keith R Potter Design 415.861.3545 [email protected] | 8.375 x 10.875 ad for client: Jen Fritz / Warrior Within | May 15 2012 22 52 features 22 Guiding a Ship of Souls Three of your most-loved mentors share what it’s 11 InspiraTion: Peak States Vinn Martí Prema Gaia’s guide to riding the waves of like to move from influence to impact. , transformation on this summer’s festival circuit. Samantha Sweetwater, and Toni Bergins reflect 13 WARMUPS on some of the nuances of leadership: being on call for • Math in Motion students, creating a safe and welcoming container, and • Amir Magal’s Markers • Ubuntu at AfrikaBurn NIEL MOLLNER A taking part in the journey. • Debbie Rosas: Wax on! OM: D T 19 spoTliGHT: Project 52 With a dream in mind, conceptual artist 28 Local Motion Daniel Mollner dishes up weekly dance videos. How do new forms of movement get established 39 VITALITY: Keeping Your Cool in communities? DJ Root travels the distance and Nirmala Nataraj touches on the hot spots and interviews five local dance leaders about starting from Departments offers cool tips for summer sun care. scratch and building a following. The determined people 42 SOUNDS: Ready, Headset, Go! Lis Addison shares years of experience to make it behind SpiritWeaves, Dance Alive, Prayerdanse, easy for facilitators to sound good on the mic. and Synergy Studios share their stories. KYER WILTSHIRE - ARTISTICWEDDINGPHOTOS.COM / BOT KYER WILTSHIRE 46 desTinaTion: British Columbia : The cool north is an invitation to move with many RIGHT opportunities and communities to explore. TOP 34 Lyrical Clothing 48 RESULTS: Moving for Life TUDIO / S Making the gear we move in is no Health challenges are eased with Martha Eddy’s easy feat. We found a wealth of joyful movement practice. YNERGY S 49 BOOK REVIEWS HE T experience behind the hottest new lines and put together a collection As We Speak; Get What You Want IMONITE- S of clothing worth wearing wherever 51 MOVEMENT MENU Summer Highlights ICK N • Education : you move. • Events and Performances TOP • Festival Special PHOTO: 19 • Retreats and Workshops CONSCIOUSDANCER.COM | SUMMER 2012 5 contributors NORTHAMPTON, MA DJ ROOT Host of The Melting Point world music radio show on WMUA, Root Cuthbertson is owner of Groove Paradise, a catalog of evocative music for transforma- tional practices. Root has been DJing for Dance New England events for 15 years, and co-founded Dance Spirit, a weekly multi-faith dance in Northampton, Massachusetts. In our feature story, he talks with five innovators about the joys and challenges of building a dance community. SAN FRANCISCO, CA NIRMALA NATARAJ Nirmala Nataraj is a Bay-Area based playwright, journalist, yogini, and budding dancer. Nirmala has written for publications ranging from American Theatre to the San Francisco Chronicle. While she is sure to do Surya namaskara (sun salutations) every morning, she is admittedly an aficionado of the cooler, more balancing Chandra namaskara (lunar salutations). Her Vitality story explores the blessings of sunshine and offers tips for getting maximum benefit from summertime rays. SAN rafael, CA LIS ADDISON Lis Addison is a composer, vocalist, and dancer. She is the originator of KiVo: The Kinetic Voice, which blends dance and chant, and she is currently recording a CD of songs from her rock musical The Daughters of Urth. Her Sounds article, which assists facilitators with mic technique, comes from years as a vocalist with rock, reggae, jazz, and world groups. MARIN, CA MONIQUE FERRIS Monique Ferris enjoys spending her time dancing and taking photographs. This spring in Bali she danced Soul Motion with Vinn Martí and attended the Bali Spirit Festival. She feels honored to dance with her camera and witness the exquisite beauty that unfolds. Her images of Soul Motion appear in our feature story on leadership. 6 CONSCIOUSDANCER.COM | SUMMER 2012 consciousdancer Paddling on the Russian River during a River Guidess dance and float adventure. checking in ave you ever had one of those moments where you have a sudden realization who we are that everything is different, that some belief or self-imposed limitation has been dissolved, and a world with new possibilities is open to you? FOUNDED ON APRIL FIRST 2007 BY H Mark Metz & Aspen Madrone For me, leadership was always something abstract. For most of my life I’ve been EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mark Metz CREatIVE DIRECTION Laura Cirolia Mr. Go-with-the-flow. At one point I thought it all had to do with the stars, that only MANAGING EDITOR Rachel Trachten certain folks blessed astrologically were able to lead the pack. Fortunately, my belief DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Melissa White, Isabelle Metz that leadership skills are innate has been disproven, and I now see that those who CREatIVE CONTRIBUTORS Brian Yee, Gianna Cirolia feel called can learn the skills. Learning to lead is a lifetime process for me; the wild OFFICE MANAGER Karina Louise CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Liz Mac, Jetta Martin, hunches and long passes that led to my current role at the helm of this magazine Elana Silverman, Mariana Rose Thorn have also accumulated responsibility to all of the readers, dancers, teachers, and StaFF WRITERS Rachel Trachten, Elana Silverman stakeholders in this movement. COMMUNITY LIAISONS Liz Mac, Lis Addison ADMINIstratIVE ASSIstant Leonora Teruel “You have to start by being nice to yourself ” is one of the simple messages about DEtaIL HANDLER Naias Kabir leadership shared by Soul Motion creator Vinn Martí. Spending a day in a movement DIGItal CONSUltant Ryan Dohrn I.T. ANGEL Luis Echeverria container with Vinn and over 100 seekers, I realized that all of us are somewhere LICENSING Efrain Correal on the path of transformation, and that removing self-judgment and encouraging PUBLISHED BY Moving Arts International self-compassion is a bedrock practice at any point along the way. It’s a common ISSN 1937-8130 thread among transformational teachers—Dancing Freedom’s Samantha Sweetwater ADVERTISING SALES AND DATES speaks about maturation requiring the counterintuitive practice of reclaiming play, FALL #20 – RESERVe 7–20 / STREET 9–1 and JourneyDance’s Toni Bergins notices a huge cultural shyness around feeling joy. WINTER #21 – RESERVe 10–20 / STREET 12–1 These three leaders are scaling up to a sustainable model and developing teachers BRANDS AND PRODUCTS [email protected] trainings, empowering others with their teachings and creating modalities that will EVENT PROMOTIONS [email protected] evolve and live beyond them. Another important and unsung group of leaders in the INQUIRIES & SUBMISSIONS conscious movement world are the hardworking community dance leaders who dig [email protected] OUR MAILING ADDRESS in their heels and commit to building a local dance community, one pair of feet at PO Box 2330, Berkeley, CA 94702 a time. Our man in the field, DJ Root, talked to five leaders across the US and taps WE LOVE HEARING FROM YOU! (510) 778-9131 into the inspiration and determination that has kept their communities growing. VISIT US ON THE WEB at We also got to wondering about another set of behind-the-scenes leaders in the WWW.CONSCIOUSDANCER.COM world of dance, the folks who create the coolest dance clothes. The designers who get it right are the ones who design from the dance-side out. You’ll get a firsthand Conscious Dancer is a quarterly active lifestyle magazine that celebrates transformative dance, mind-body fitness, and look into the creative process behind several brands to watch. energy movement arts. Conscious Dancer does not endorse any specific modality, practitioner, or product. Please consult a health professional before attempting any new movement And finally, we’re pleased to announce the launch of our new events map and video activities or health regimens. Conscious Dancer disclaims any liability for loss or injury in connection with activities blog at www.consciousdancer.com. As we approach our fifth birthday, which we portrayed or advice given herein. Please send all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, and address changes will celebrate with the fall issue, our focus is squarely on you. How can we serve via email or to our Conscious Dancer address listed above. you better? What can we do to help the movement expand? We send thanks and © 2012 Moving Arts International. Printed in the USA with gratitude to each of our readers, and trust that our work is making a difference. post consumer-waste content using soy-based inks. Please reuse and recycle. All rights reserved. Yours in the dance, ARR COVER: 5Rhythms facilitator Bettina Rothe (left) C MY moves with dancer Sheena Bhatia at the 45West A Multi-Arts Studio in Vancouver, BC. MARK METZ, Editor - in - Chief PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPHER: MICHAEL JULIAN BERZ CONSCIOUSDANCER.COM | SUMMER 2012 7 shareback Study Somatics in Depth Pacifi ca Graduate Institute’s M.A./Ph.D. I AM INSPIRED I work as a thera- Program in Depth Psychology with pist with mentally ill youth at a commu- Emphasis in Somatic Studies nity mental health Neuroscience has now convincingly clinic, where I co- demonstrated the functional unity facilitate an expres- between mind and body. This validates sive arts group. one of the foundational principles of Several weeks ago, I depth psychology—an understanding asked the youth to envision what they would like to bring into their lives by using collage.