Contemplative Dance Practice (CDP)
Every Odd Wednesday 5pm
Roger Williams Park Temple to Music, PVD RI
Every Odd Wednesday 5pm
Roger Williams Park Temple to Music, PVD RI
Final Sessions of 2025: September 17, October 1, 15, 29
Contemplative Dance Practice (CDP) is an hour-long community practice
that combines meditation and movement, created by Barbara Dilley.
that combines meditation and movement, created by Barbara Dilley.
Bring a blanket, yoga mat, and your own cushions to be comfortable on the ground. When you arrive, arrange your cushions around the edges of the space. This is generally a non-verbal practice, please become familiar with the following score before you arrive (or don't, and feel the wonder of it all!)
• 20 minutes—Sitting Meditation
ding, ding, ding, ding (bell)
• 20 minutes—Personal Awareness Practice (could be considered personal warm up; you are listening to your body and letting the body lead. You could be near your cushion or anywhere in the space;
writing and singing are also possible. You could bring an instrument and play it too.)
ding
• 20 minutes—Open Space (sense of community; short bow to enter and to exit the space;
it's practice not performance)
ding
• a few final moments of sitting
ding, ding, ding, ding....group bow
THE END
the above language was adapted from the preliminary instructions I received from Nancy Stark Smith before joining a sangha led by her in Florence, MA. For more details and more of my own ideas, please visit this page.
There is no fee to participate in this practice.
Gifts of appreciation are welcome at any time, in any increment, and not expected.
ding, ding, ding, ding (bell)
• 20 minutes—Personal Awareness Practice (could be considered personal warm up; you are listening to your body and letting the body lead. You could be near your cushion or anywhere in the space;
writing and singing are also possible. You could bring an instrument and play it too.)
ding
• 20 minutes—Open Space (sense of community; short bow to enter and to exit the space;
it's practice not performance)
ding
• a few final moments of sitting
ding, ding, ding, ding....group bow
THE END
the above language was adapted from the preliminary instructions I received from Nancy Stark Smith before joining a sangha led by her in Florence, MA. For more details and more of my own ideas, please visit this page.
There is no fee to participate in this practice.
Gifts of appreciation are welcome at any time, in any increment, and not expected.
Recent Past Projects
Stevia Daddy
Stevia Daddy is your alternative sweet daddy, in the House of Andy, Providence RI. Appearing here as Han Solo/Aladdin with the best copilot king Arthur Honeyseer as Princess Leia/Jasmine. Stevia has also appeared as a fire-hot dragon and as Lizzie Borden's dad in various Randy Andy productions. Keep an eye out for Stevia Daddy in
Stranger Kings this October in Providence.
Elm City Dance Collective: TransBody
(2023-24)
(2023-24)
Elm City Dance Collective: National Water Dance at Long Wharf (2022, 24)
NWD is a catalyst that encourages ongoing engagement between dance and the environment. As a creative collaborator with NWD and Elm City Dance Collective, I co-led a team of performing artists in the city of New Haven to bring awareness to water issues along the Long Island Sound at Long Wharf.
Elm City Dance Collective : Haiku Project
(2020)
(2020)
I’m hungry for more
morphing mazes -- same four walls
live to eat to live
morphing mazes -- same four walls
live to eat to live
In March 2020, everything stopped and the world held its breath. Cut off from community dance spaces, like many other dancers, I danced alone in my home. I used social media apps such as Instagram and Zoom to connect with the world, to see and to be seen. Kellie Ann Lynch of Elm City Dance Collective imagined a project through which we could create small thoughtful dance poems, and share them with each other and the world. A series of four haiku-inspired dances unfolded. I relished the opportunity to create with my cameras, light, and movement.
