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Shelter: A Cosmic Experience
Maslow would be proud of me if he knew that I was highlighting the lowest level of his pyramid in a dance! If we didn’t have the handicap of always focusing on how to afford food and shelter, just think how much more we could do for the world. In...
Pie, Picket Fences & Purgatory
Though I wasn’t called in life to drive oxen, I have occasionally been driven to madness. There’s a narrow chasm between iconic Americana and our deeper desires toward temptation and deviance. I think I’ll live, but someone should really examine...
The First Dance
It’s not every day that your niece asks you to choreograph her first dance for her wedding! Without hesitation, I answered with a resounding, “yes!” Barrie White’s, “My Everything, ” was the chosen song, and the basement of Diamond Hill Church in...
Mother’s Day
My mother lived to a ripe young age of 62. I found solace in choreographing this solo, now 13 years ago. It had taken me four years after her death to get around to my real feelings, I guess, as she died in 1994. I recall the night well when I...
A Taxing Time
> C Nicholas Johnson in “1040” Nick Johnson, cooling off in “1040” Nick Johnson arriving to the office in “1040” “Hat Trick” in “1040” Nick Johnson tells the taxes to ‘take that!’ in “1040” C Nicholas Johnson, ending it all, in “1040” Circa 1988, a...
Dance in New London-No Foolin’
On Friday, April 1st, the New London Dance Initiative presents its 1st Annual “New London Dance LIVE” Benefit. As invited guests, Adams Company Dance will be performing “Heart Song,” danced by Ryan Schmidt & James A Pierce III. Proceeds...