The Dance of Exile
Read here an article I wrote for the Re-inventing Home online magazine about my journey away from and to home.
Read here an article I wrote for the Re-inventing Home online magazine about my journey away from and to home.
A series of novel playshops for tango dancers
– with Biljana Lipic
22nd April 2023 [11am – 5pm] + other dates TBC.
@ Little Narabo, Devoran, Cornwall, TR3 6NF
Tango is an intuitive and improvised way of moving, relating and creating from our hearts. Yet, we tend to go to workshops to learn it by forcing our bodies into rigid shapes. We drill in dance patterns and end up compulsively repeating them.
Anglo-Argentinean Memoir by Trevor Grove
(Black Spring)
Sometimes my past seems a bit unreal! Especially when I read about it in other people’s books and memoirs! Trevor Grove is a best-selling author and a renowned journalist, who was an editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Ok, his portrait of me is rather generous and kind..
Preparing to dance, I reach out with my sense-antennas. I scan the distance, listening through my body. I smell, I observe and I notice. I gently touch my partner. We get closer.
I spoke to Greg Martin about how I left Sarajevo just before the outbreak of war, and discovered tango, shamanism, Cornwall and my houseboat Floatee.
I come from a place that no longer exists.
This is a phrase that has accompanied me for a long time. I chose it to keep myself creatively focused throughout my dark night of the soul. For, I have always known that, when I am creative, despite difficulties, I am nurturing a sanctuary of wellness…
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