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In
my former life, before becoming a Mom I was a dancer, dance teacher,
choreographer, lecturer in Movement for the Actor at the University
of Connnecticut, founder of a dance program at a private school
in Massachusetts, and a waitress inbetween times. After so many
years of living the dancer's life and following my dream I one
day asked myself where it all went - - - after all the hours of
rehearsals, of sweat and ice packs and post performance let down
the dance was a thing of the past, elusive and ephemeral in it's
beauty. I began to play with the idea of choreographing with my
hands and one day back in 1990 I walked into Gallery 33 in downtown
Portsmouth N.H. and presented my first effort to the gallery owner,
Priscilla Van Loon. " Make me more of these," Pricsilla,
soon to become my mentor, instructed me. The rest is history.
I had found a way, through mixed media sculpture, to capture the
split second timing, freedom, joy and energy of form in motion.
In 1997 I became state juried in mixed media throught the esteemed
League of N.H. Craftsmen. Through them the choreography that continued
to pour out of my hands and heart had found a home. Later I was
also encouraged by getting juried into the N.H. Art association
and into two of their juried shows at the Currier museum in Manchester
N.H. I honed my craft, experimented with all kinds of substances
to make my work more durable and finally re-discovered the wheel:
HELLO ancient lost wax method method of casting in bronze!
Currently I'm excited about honing my craft as a small scale figurative
sculptor and have recently created a line of silver and bronze
dance and cirque inspired jewelry. I have a series of garden-home
decor sculptures that are also performer inspired. Iam now a proud
owner of a jewler's torch and I am experimenting away with mobilia,
the fourth dimension and the infinite possibilities inherent in
the combining of the figuative with the abstract.
In 2005 I spent some time away from my studio designing, creating,
sourcing out and developing a game called "Youtopia".
Like most Utopians my "Youtopia" also failed. Instead,
it transformed itself into another game called "Verbosity"
- it was too complicated for everyone and finally simplified itself
one Yureka day into a little magnetic, hand-held, inspirational,
new thought, intuition jogging game called "Hand Held Psychic".
I'll be blogging with its infinite combinations of 80 word titles
as a way to get more of this new thought out into this world.
NOt only is it a great tool for transformation, it's also a great
help in oversoming writers' block. And since writing is also an
art-form...
As one of my favorite old time choreogaphers , Alwin Nikolais
once quoted: "Art doesn't give ahang how it happens."
And then again its all about energy and light and it all comes
from one Source. We are all, I believe, here to create. |
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~Debbie |
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