PRAISE OF THE DANCE
Photos by Bob Bennett at Rhapsody Summerfest
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While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself
from life.
I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. -- -
Hans Bos
(from Billy Grant, Rome, GA contra dancer)
PRAISE OF THE DANCE
Photos by Bob Bennett at Rhapsody Summerfest
I praise the dance, for it frees people from the heaviness of matter and
binds the isolated to community.
I praise the dance, which demands everything: health and a clear spirit and
a buoyant soul.
Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people, who are in constant
danger of becoming all brain, will, or feeling.
Dancing demands a whole person, one who is firmly anchored in the center of
his life, who is not obsessed by lust for people and things and the demon of
isolation in his own ego.
Dancing demands a freed person, one who vibrates with the equipoise of all
his powers.
I praise the dance.
O man, learn to dance, or else the angels in heaven will not know what to do
with you.
----------Saint
Augustine (A.D. 354 ... 430)
See various Split Tree and Atlanta Waltz Society digital photos by by Bob Bennett
Lookout Mountain to north from Split Tree front porch --
Photo by Bob Bennett
Split Tree Photo Albums on iMac
Richard Powers' Zen of Waltz Split Tree 2005 Photos
Power's 2004 Waltz Weekend photos Mizilca's Gypsy Woman Dance Solo photos -- by Sid Hetzler
Joan Hetzler Split Tree photos, 2003
Split Tree 1994 to 2004 photos
Atlanta Waltz Society March 21, 04 general
AWS contact/waltzing photos, March 21, 04
Split Tree photo album
Studio photo/card by Gwen Moore.
Andy Estes' photos of Nov 1999's Cool Studio fundraising weekend.
1999
Fools Fest
Fotos
Bonnie Mitchell of Atlanta tweaks Head Fool Seth Tepfer.
Split Tree Scenes:
Karah Card and Don Walker planning studio floor pads, 1996
1) North deck with hot tub
2) Inside studio facing stage/house
3) North view of Lookout Mountain from deck picnic table
4) Gizard of Split Tree
5) Spirit of Split Tree
6) Studio
7) Dan Bowles blows while Bob Willoughby tickles the blues piano at
Fools' Fest 96
8) Old split cherry tree at sunset, 1994: J. C.
Jones photo
9) Studio floor with new Dance Weekend
T-shirts
10) Writing Cabin
11) Gathering around Split Tree to hear ideas for
the old tree site
Richard Powers' Halloween Waltz Weekend, Oct. 30-Nov 1
1)Rhonda Grace's pumpkin carving of the "split tree"
2)Richard Powers and teaching partner Angela Amarillas at Halloween
Waltz Ball
3)Fisheye camera view of Powers waltz class in studio
4) Paul Tidwell's shot of Rhonda's pumpkin with mountain scenery
1999 Creative Dance Week Camp for Kids 9-12
more to come...
Stanford University Dance Department's 1997 Traditions and Transitions
Dance Week:
1) Split Tree Jammix 98 registrar Tara Lee Rishko, 3
photos.
2) Four Stanford ladies at Powers' Split Tree Viennese Ball Waltz Weekend, October 1997
Waltz Album: Link to waltz page.
1)Angels waltzing on a grand piano, Strauss Museum,
Vienna, Austria