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Warmups
Masankho Banda tells the story of the three spirits that live within the drum
The hypnotic slaps, thumps, and crack of the drum have taken a turn that permeates the core with dissonance. Chaos ensues and the previous moments of harmony give way to a nerve-twitching racket. Waving his left hand high, the facilitator calls out, “I like choc-o-late” (dum clack, bom dun clack!). To the right he conducts, “I like straw-berries” (dum clack dum slap slap!”). To the middle, “I like coffee” (dum clack boom!). Eyes closed, each player focuses on his or her section’s rhythm.
Drumming and dancing are activities that truly define the human experience. Common to every culture from before recorded history, the drum externalizes the rhythm of our heartbeats. This simple object that appears almost everywhere music and movement meet is still the most effective tool we have for connecting individually with the spirit within, and collectively with our communities outside. we invite you to explore the roots of rhythm and its meaning in the modern day in these two looks at the Spirit of the drums.
Jenny Swerdlow is a woman rooted in rhythm, arms extended in poetic resonance with Shel Silverstein’s Giving Tree. After ten years as an art therapist working with traumatized youth, she met Arthur Hull, a key figure in the expansion of the international Drum Circle Movement. “Upon placing my hand on the djembe for the first time,” says Swerdlow, “it was as if a door to the universe opened … The joy, power, connection, and release I felt while drumming was like nothing I had experienced before.”
- Despite his training in both medical and chiropractic methods, Jon Schreiber found himself still seeking a hands-on wellness modality—one based on a holistic and synergistic interaction between patient and practitioner. Exploring the juncture where awareness and embodiment meet led Schreiber to the creation of Breema, a dynamic form of movement-based bodywork that values surprise over convention.
Unwinding and unbinding unraveling as we are traveling wandering together into the center of who we are.
In this exploration of people who have reinvented themselves in the realm of movement, we found that each of these movers and shakers offers us a new way of thinking, creating, and experiencing life. They provide seven examples of “work” as participation in cultural evolution. Careers that are not something we do, but something we are. Indeed, there are infinite possibilities for each of us, and each profile highlights the variation.Now this is what we call renewable energy! The UK cell phone provider Orange has unveiled their latest phone charging concept, the dance Charge. It’s an armband that cleverly uses magnets to generate free electricity from kinetic body movements such as dancing or jogging. With this handy device on your arm, your batteries will never be dead. The only downside is that you may get distracted on the dance floor thinking about all the juice you’re generating. wave your hands in the air and charge your phone like you just don’t care! www.orange.co.ukI once asked myself why I could not dance like Alvin Ailey. Besides the humor in this question, my inquiry was a metaphoric investigation as to why I was blocking my own energetic flow. I began to intuitively interpret my physical, emotional, and spiritual landscape. As I reflected, it became clear that I expressed my inner self in the physical world with movement as well as clothing preferences. When we dance, the combination of movement and music harmonizes both sides of the brain, releasing endorphins.
Bushmen of the Kalahari practice the world’s oldest continuous tradition of ecstatic connection to the life force.
Looking for a great children’s gift for this year’s birthday or holiday? How about starting a new tradition: the music basket.
Michael Franti shares his keys to holding community space.
