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While I Was Dancing

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31 August 2010

This collection of poems was written between 2004 and 2009. Working with various partners Steve Clorfeine developed a form, "moving and writing," in which one person moves with eyes closed and the other witnesses the movement, after which both write, "free writing" style.
Witnessed moving with eyes closed is based on a form called Authentic Movement, pioneered by Mary Starks Whitehouse and later by Janet Adler. They brought to a generation of dancers, educators, and therapists an improvised mindfulness-awareness practice, which Whitehouse called "movement in depth...moving and being moved." What is revealed when the activity of imagining is primary, when the less visible or invisible becomes visible, when the substance of shapes, sounds, images, stories surfaces, mingles, and compounds and we are drawn deeper into the unknown and directed to mysteries?


Author’s Introduction
Eleanor's Dance
In The Foyer
Who Will Look After Her When The Children Are Gone?
A Journal Of Positive
Dwelling
Help Is On Its Way
Epifaneia
"We Have Buried So Much…The Delicate Magic Of Li Fe"
A Dream Apart
News From Basements
By This Merit
The Way He Knows Is By Reflection On Water
Called Back
Forgetting How Remember When
Etchings By Christoph Zihlmann
On Wings
Angels
Monica Vitti
Elsewhere
Accord, Ecuador
Cracow
Suspend
Birds Dream
Old Ones
Acknowledgments
Artist’s Statement
About The Author