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Living Circles Summer Camp |
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Live music and dance has grown throughout our camps and is something that I feel we can bring into our local communities.
Within the circle of our camp we will join in making and sharing music and dance throughout the camp. We may also explore other ways of joining in music that move us but our focus will be with circle dance and music - and as a particpation rather than performance. This will also be an invitation and indeed expectation to come out of our closets and sing, drum and risk into making music - whatever our current level of ability.
We will be a small one circle camp using the roundhouse and field to dance. I have begun making musical resources available online and with feedback and encouragement this can grow apace. However our primary qualification is a willingness to risk growing a circle of trust with others and letting music and dance be our way together. A copy of a letter sent 5/7/05 to camp e-lists reminding, inviting and sharing more of what moves me to meet in circles of music and dance.
If you have any queuries or would like to know more - contact me. |
The exact nature of what we choose to do will vary but when we meet each morning we can arrange our days and establish threads that run through the camp.
In Mayflower Camps we discover ways to be in living community as well as celebrating and expressing our community. Music and song are part of of this and particularly so around our camp fires. We also dance in circles and lines where making music, rythmn, singing and dancing, all come together as a participation.
I had been a circle dance teacher since the late 80s but nearly always using recorded music - which tended to put me in the middle in a way that I became tired of. At dance camps, I started to explore live music and experienced another dimension with the dance yet felt unready to take this outside the camps at that time. When I started holding Mayflower camps I looked for where circle dance could grow from the ground up rather than being a theme imposed from the top down - and we have grown this as a natural part of being together.
With experience gained in playing at camps and with other musicians I can hold the space and provide direction if required. But always with an invitation to the initiative and creativity of others. We are so used to seeing life as fragmented into bits that we forget that life is one. To experience this is to be unselfconsciously participant - to forget (and yet find) our selves in joy. - Brian Steere |
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