Dance Poetry

I teach a workshop titled Poetry In Motion where I weave dance with words. I love poetry and encourage my students to write poetry about their dance which I will post on this page. Please feel free to contribute. Here are poems written by students who have attended my dance classes:

A wild horse now lives in my legs,
galloping and free 
Through fields of new dimensions
never experienced beforeA graceful gazelle
now emanates from my soul,
no longer the newborn calf
stumbling over its own feet. 

Dancing permeates every cell in my body.
At one with the music,
fluid flowing grace
wildly undulating
and spiraling
through me 
and beyond.  –E.K. 7/08

_____

Spread reach back spiral along

Curved grooves stories in rockfac

Pebbled surface twists into snake stalked paths of tunneled energy

Far beyond the edge of everyday walking and conversation
Where the animals and small multi-legged creatures drift along by the river - C.S. 6/08

_______

Joy (by T.Z.)

 

As I wake to the dance,

     That I Am,

          Speaking in fluidity,

 

It fills my heart’s open spaces,

and sets my motion free.

 

Now this freedom’s bending,

Points a way for dreams to be.

 

We step the circle of wakeful dreaming,

It fills our heart’s open spaces.

 

Now this freedom’s bending,

Points a way for us to see,

 

In group as one our footsteps fill

Your floor with laughter so joyfully.

_________