By Johanna Leseho, Sandra McMaster
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Cultivate skillfulness. • The person with the most behavioral flexibility will control (I like to say guide) any given situation. • Drive all blame into one’s self. • Fear is the beginning of wisdom. • What you think is coming towards you, is really coming from you. • What is your intention? And on and on. Intention. That’s always a good place to start. My intention at first was to teach the girls how to dance. That shifted into accepting them for who they were at any given moment and loving them.
This style continues today as an essential element in musical theatre production. In the same era, modern dance was just beginning to be established as a professional pursuit, evolving from the work of early pioneers such as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, and Merce Cunningham. As a result, many colleges and universities had begun to incorporate a few classes of this form into their Physical Education programs. Since a very few were offering it as a major curricular focus, I remained in journalism and kept repeating the basic class in modern dance offered three times each week during the four years of my journalism degree program.
After more prayerful consideration, I made the choice. It was one that would forever impact my life, my spiritual journey, my husband, and my six children. ” In the process of interpreting our reaction to the crucifixion of Christ, a wonderful thing happened. The dance did become a prayer. As I was developing the movement for the group, my thoughts focused on being present at the crucifixion. I imagined how I would feel watching someone I loved, someone who was willing to die for me, hanging on a cross.
