No Man Is an Island...

I've been reminiscing a bit on the past year of school...since I clearly have not posted since then.  I'm terrible, I know.  But now I'm back, and thinking about the wonderful year I spent on Moving Company with some of the greatest dancers and people I know.  There were a lot of ups and downs this semester, but overall it was a well spent year.  I have learned so much.  This year we wanted to do something different.  A collaboration project, if you will.  We combined several disciplines including: chamber choir, English literature (more specifically works from John Donne), and dance.  To name a few.  It was such an amazing experience to take concepts from John Donne's work and make it accessible to elementary/junior high aged students.  It was most definitely challenging, but such a wonderful success.  It is true that "No man is an island, entire of itself."  We are all interconnected whether we choose to identify those connections or to avoid them.  How you interpret these inevitable connections is completely up to you, but once you realize that they exist and the role that they play in life, a lot of change for good or bad can be made.  I have decided to make a goal to be more aware of my own connections to the world around me.  I am going to make a serious effort to be sure that the effects/affects of my actions and doings are positive and that they make the world and people around me better than they were before. 

Here are a few pics from our Moving Co. photo shoot: