Dancing on the Earth

Dancing on the Earth
Author: Johanna Leseho
Publisher: Findhorn Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1844093840

The essays in this dynamic compilation are a testament to dance as a healing art. Widely interdisciplinary in nature and written by women dancers from around the world, they illustrate a rich array of dance practices, cultures, and disciplines and show how this expressive therapy can be both empowering and exhilarating. The women’s narratives all share a deep appreciation for the connection between mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions, offering dance as a transformative power of renewing and rebuilding that bond. Both personal and professional, the stories weave a vivid tapestry of lived experiences and insights, balance, and a community healed by dance.

Earth Dances

Earth Dances
Author: Andrew Ford
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1925203018

Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring . . . Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture. With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews, including with Liza Lim and Brian Eno, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship between primal forms of music and the most refined examples of the art – between passion and control. He looks at the voice, the drum, the drone and the dance, at ‘music that is in touch with something fundamental in our existence, music that seeks and rediscovers the earthy side of our nature, the primitive, the “simple, rude or rough”, and in doing so restores and resets our humanity’. ‘The perfect, knowledgeable, enthusiastic friend . . . I couldn’t put it down!’ —David Robertson ‘Much has been made of the search for the lost chord. But chords are sophisticated structures. Earth Dances documents Andrew Ford’s intrepid quest for the lost thud, and the lost scream . . . Music can’t survive without primitivism. It is the bushfire clearing overgrown and cluttered musical landscapes, paring them to essentials. This results in fresh structures, materials and practices that lead us to the place we belong.’ —Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes, MONA FOMA ‘Earth Dances is a vivid and rarely less than astute history of the debt modern music simultaneously owes to the inheritances of tradition, and the texture of dissonance.’ —Kill Your Darlings ‘Filled with insightful musical analysis made accessible for a general audience.’ —Sydney Morning Herald

Earthdance

Earthdance
Author: Joanne Ryder
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1996-04-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780805026788

Readers are asked to picture themselves as the earth, turning in space, facing the light, feeling the green things growing and the oceans shifting.

Earth Dance

Earth Dance
Author: Oka Rusmini
Publisher: Lontar
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789798083822

"Earth Dance," the story of four generations of Balinese women, centers on conflicts that arise between the demands of caste and personal desires. Narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga, a Balinese woman in her thirties, the novel shows Balinese women-as depicted by her mother, grandmother and female peers-to be motivated by two factors: the yearning to be beautiful, and the desire for a high-caste husband. Headstrong Telaga defies her mother's wishes and marries the man of her dreams, who is a commoner. Thus, in a reversal of societal expectations, as shown in the novel by images of women who aspire to "liberation" through "marrying up," Telaga's emancipation is implicitly characterized as a move downwards, through transformation to the status of a commoner. "Earth Dance" also reveals that-like high-caste status-beauty, too, has a price. Behind the thick, glossy hair and golden complexion, lies a web of jealousy, derision and intrigue. Telaga, whose life is controlled by her mother's avarice, her mother-in-law's bitterness and the greed of her sister-in-law, has frequent cause to wonder: "Is this what it means to be a woman?"

Dances with the Earth

Dances with the Earth
Author: Gabriele Rossetti
Publisher: Presses des MINES
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2004
Genre: Composition (Music)
ISBN: 2911762517

A Brief History of Earth

A Brief History of Earth
Author: Andrew H. Knoll
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0062853937

Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).

Earth Dance Drum

Earth Dance Drum
Author: BlackWolf Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1996
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Here you will find a celebration of drumming, singing, dancing--a celebration of living. In Earth Dance Drum, the authors describe timeless truths as they relate to the powerful dances of the Native American Powwow. Through tribal wisdom and dances, poetry and stories, you will strengthen you connection to Mother Earth and Spirit World. Illustrations, photos.

Dancing with the Earth Changes

Dancing with the Earth Changes
Author: Pogačnik Marko
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 158420947X

"It is increasingly evident that the dramatic consequences of the Earth's changing process cannot be avoided, that our civilization today is not willing to implement the necessary measures to stop the deterioration of the natural environment. It is up to open-minded individuals and their networks to engage actively where support for Gaia is lacking." --Marko Pogačnik, UNESCO Artist for Peace Dancing with the Earth Changes offers alternative insights into the process of the Earth Changes, inspiring a deep listening to Gaia, the driving force behind the ongoing planetary transformation. Marko Pogačnik's intention is to offer his worldwide work experience in the fields of geomancy and "Earth healing" to enable a better understanding of the complexity of those Earth Changes. Included are stories from several of Marko's dreams connected to the theme of the book, which will help to elucidate its pictorial language. The author also offers imaginations, as well as Gaia Touch and perception exercises, to support the reader attune to the changing Earth. The imaginations and exercises in this timely book simultaneously supports Gaia's efforts in creating optimal conditions for the future evolution of humanity and the elemental and spiritual worlds of the planet. The cooperation of human beings with Gaia and her elemental worlds is absolutely necessary for the Earth's transmutation to succeed. As human beings, with our creative imaginations and wide-ranging consciousness, we are the only ones capable of connecting the earthly and cosmic dimensions in this mutual endeavor to re-create the Earth as a place of peace and cooperation among all beings and all aspects of life. Marko Pogačnik's innovative forms of meditation and Gaia Touch body exercises and rituals give us the tools we urgently need now to meet the present and coming challenges of the twenty-first century. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Paperback with French flaps.