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June 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Teaching As An Egoless Practice

(First published on May 24, 2011 at The Mindful Dancer)

“creating without possessing,

acting without expecting,

guiding without interfering.”

~Tao te Ching (from the Stephen Mitchell translation)

Creating, acting, guiding, and (I might add) teaching without possessing, expecting, and interfering. This has been a guiding principle of…

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Added by James Robey on June 28, 2011 at 2:46pm — No Comments

The Royal Danish Ballet's Engagement at Lincoln Center

The evening of June 14^th 2011 was unseasonably wet and chilly in New York City but the ebullient goings-on inside the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center chased away the gloom for the appreciative balletomanes in the audience. The occasion was the opening night of the Tuesday to Sunday run of mixed bills by the Royal Danish Ballet in its first New York appearance since 1998. Nikolaj Hübbe, a long-time and well-loved New York City Ballet principal dancer, has been Artistic…

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Added by Sondra Forsyth on June 15, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments