Author: dmwauthor

What captivates a listener? When planning a reading from my novel Isadora & Lucia I thought about my audience. I would be standing in front of them. They would see me, not my words. They would hear my words. Why not offer them something else than my voice reciting my own words? So I pictured myself doing something else. What if I were in a dance class doing improvisation. Some passages from my novel are set in a dance class and one in particular is a description of an improvisation class. I have participated in many such classes as a student. As a teacher I have led these classes for children and adults. I have some idea what makes these experiences work for the participants. Role playing works. So I decided to read from the passage in my novel where the teacher asks the characters who are students in her dance class to role play. To prompt this role-playing the teacher dons suitable attire. That is what I did. I got four hats and I plopped them on my head while reading. The audience found the experience enriching. From my reading/performance they could visualize the characters and what they were doing in the text. I taped my reading and uploaded it to Youtube. You can watch it on my channel.

BAREFOOT

Third in a series of achieving a better lifestyle

My positive life experience is through an exercise and dance programme that is a fusion of movement and breathing at a level of discipline that feels comfortable for ongoing mental and physical fitness.
This discipline is over 100 years old.
It is called MMM (Margaret Morris Method).

I started with posture and balance. Now I am moving on to barefoot. Barefoot dancing develops strength in the many muscles of the feet and ankles giving support to the whole body. How can a body achieve balance without the support of the feet? MMM has exercises that are specifically designed to keep feet fit and healthy. How many people do you know with terrible feet? Doing these exercises is like giving yourself a reflexology treatment. Look at my foot where I am demonstrating part of a toe exercise:

Margaret Morris developed MMM as movement of exercises and dance for doing barefoot. In her time the modernist dance movement rejected the traditional strictures of strapping feet into shoes. Continue reading BAREFOOT

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Donna Wootton. Interview on small town radio 89.7 fm Part 2 is actually part 1

Donna Wootton. My interview on small town radio, 89.7, about the ebook Isadora & Luia