“I try to dance through life as I dance through my body…. I am a firm believer in cross training as a way of making the body and mind more intelligent… Speaking multiple movement and artistic languages can make the world a better place as we become more open minded, self accomplished, embodied, joyful, nourished,…
“This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards, in the design of golf courses and public parks, and in gold framed pictures that hang in living rooms from New York to New Zealand. A landscape that just happens to be similar to the Pleistocene savannas where we evolved. It’s a kind of Hudson River…
Natural perfumer, writer and iconoclast Mandy Aftel joins the Institute for Art and Olfaction founder Saskia Wilson-Brown in a conversation about her practice. … Books
“At a deeper level…we hold hands to send eachothers’ brains a signal, and that signal is something like ‘I am here with you. I am here with you. I am here with you.’” …
“If we were things-lovers we’d have better things, and few things we don’t use. Market competition would drive products to become better and better, instead of just more plentiful.”
“A pat on the back, a caress of the arm—these are everyday, incidental gestures that we usually take for granted, thanks to our amazingly dexterous hands. “But after years spent immersed in the science of touch, I can tell you that they are far more profound than we usually realize: They are our primary language…
Soundscapes inspired by fictional worlds and spaces – the common rooms at Hogwarts, a holiday Pirates tavern, Middle Earth’s Shire, etc. https://www.youtube.com/c/AmbientWorlds/about
A lantern parade running through downtown Waterbury, leading to a celebration with bonfires, fire dancers, and hot beverages. https://www.ariveroflightinwaterbury.org/
“A luminous soundscape played by the audience on boomboxes carried through city streets.” http://unsilentnight.com/