Every Other Wednesday 5pm
Roger Williams Park Temple to Music, PVD RI
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final practice of 2025, a blustery October evening. I thought I would be practicing alone, so set up a camera for fun and settled in for 20 minutes of meditation. I rang the second bell and turned to my left, happy to learn I had been joined by another practitioner. We went on to share a beautiful dance, swirling around architecture, exploration, and a queer green light casting pools and shadows for us to play in. all without speaking a word, a testament to the magic and intelligence that is ever present and always possible when we focus our attention just-so.
JULY 1,15,29
AUGUST 12,26
SEPTEMBER 9,23
OCTOBER 7,21
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!)
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.
-Generally, this is a non-verbal practice, participants arrive knowing the framework, or "score"
-Sometimes I read a little something to seed the sit, but generallyyou are on your own to
find a meditation pathway you enjoy. This includes all postures and movement variations.
-If we start late, we still end at 6:00pm
-In the first phase, you may meditate in any of the four noble postures: standing, sitting, laying on your back, or walking.
-In the second phase, vocalizing is welcome, especially if it helps you to locate kinesthetic delight.
-In the third phase, begin in your starting/meditation space.
Acknowledge your choice to join the dance with a pause and/or gesture .
Acknowledge your choice to finish your dance with the same gesture and return to your starting position.
There is no limit to the number of times you might complete this cycle.
-After the third phase ending bell, we sit for about a minute or so, the bell rings 4 times to signal
the end of the practice, and we bow together.
-There is no requirement to stick around, or socialize after the practice.
And also, sticking around to socialize after the practice is always welcome.
-There is no expectation that you will arrive, there is no need to check in. If you make it, you will be there.
You will always be welcome. You may invite a friend, and practice with others in your household.
-Musical instruments are always welcome.
There is no fee to participate in this practice.
Gifts of appreciation are welcome at any time, in any increment, and not expected.
Stevia Daddy is your alternative sweet father figure, 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.
(2023-24)
at Long Wharf (2022, 24)
As a creative collaborator with NWD and Elm City Dance Collective, I co-led teams of performing artists in the city of New Haven to bring awareness to water issues along the
Long Island Sound at Long Wharf.
(2022, 23)
The Underscore, a long-form dance improvisation structure created by Nancy Stark Smith, incorporates Contact Improvisation (CI) into the broader arena of improvisational dance practice. Global Underscore (GUS) centers around a yearly event in which the Underscore is practiced simultaneously for a 4-hour period by people all over the world near the summer solstice (northern hemisphere). (from https://globalunderscore.com) A practitioner of the Underscore since 2017, I have served as a site coordinator/facilitator in Providence and New Haven.
(2019)
Lucille Jun and domenik lee are dance artists who were once graduate students together at Smith College in Northampton, MA. This collaboration exists within a matrix of euphoric escape, togetherness, the end of winter, and coming clean.
(2020)
morphing mazes -- same four walls
live to eat to live
