Experimental Performance as Spiritual Practice
(Blog)

1/21/17 Mystic, mythic news reporter Caroline Kasey reframes our trauma and suffering as “our beautiful, dangerous assignment.” I love this. It helps me to see our problems from a larger, much wiser, and more workable perspective. Yes, there are many … Continue reading →

It’s been a number of years since I’ve written something for this blog. Like many of us since the 2016 national election, I’m experiencing an awakening. There is both the rude awakening to the terrifying scope of prejudice, ignorance, and capacity … Continue reading →

SAVE THE DATE: (Please Note: We will be updating this particular blog post regularly as new information becomes available. Most recent update: 7/26/13, 11am) Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. A 24 hour Performance-a-thon! by the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (IIE)  Dandelion Dancetheater’s … Continue reading →

Hello Bay Area Community, Please join the Statewide Dance Flash Mobs to Save Public Education. Wednesday October 31st, 12:00 – 12:20pm @ CSUEB in front of the RAW Center and also taking place simultaneously at CSU campuses across the state. … Continue reading →

We are working on organizing simultaneous dance flash mobs across the state of California on  October 31st, 2012 at noon, to support public education in the approaching election. Below is the message We’ve been sending to Dance, Theater, Kinesiology and … Continue reading →

As we finish up our first premiere weekend of Arthur in Underland, and move towards our last, (performances run through March 18th) here’s some background on the piece, from the Director’s Note I wrote for the program: Arthur in Underland … Continue reading →

Emmaly Wiederholt interviewed “Arthur in Underland’s” Co-Director, Writer and Performer Mantra Plonsey about the creation of Dandelion’s new work: EMMALY WIEDERHOLT: What was the process of drawing from Eric’s personal history to write Arthur in Underland? Conversely, what is it like to perform in? … Continue reading →

I’m thrilled to be back at CounterPULSE, about a year after our first ARC residency. The piece we created through the residency, FRIEND came out of the recent loss of one of my closest friends to a brain tumor at … Continue reading →

Somehow my post-performance experience for major projects always ends up as a crash landing. No matter how much I prepare, or how much time I leave open for recovery, there’s always an awkwardness as I attempt to integrate back into … Continue reading →

After the performance of The Dislocation Express on Wednesday night, David Ryther and I were in front of the Ed Roberts Campus, waiting to go inside and pack up. We were standing where the whole performance journey starts, and now … Continue reading →