3 Ballerinas

Femme absolument somptueuse et adorablement belle et séduisante.

Ballerina by Abah Baratawiria 

shot with a Canon 5D Mark II Sigma 70-300mm T 1/160-f7..1-iso 500 

Women's Portraits Only (WPO)

Ballerina by Matthew Nutting making the most of window light.

Woman absolutely sumptuous and adorably beautiful and attractive.

Ballet dancer in the streets of New York city by photographer, Omar Z. Robles. (2016)

How Energy Can Be Developed.

Alessandra Belloni leading a 7 day intensive healing workshop featuring 

Southern Italian ritual dances used for centuries throughout the Mediterranean for healing. (2015)

'Rhythm is the Cure' is a 7-day intensive healing workshop featuring Southern Italian ritual dances used as music and dance therapy for centuries throughout the Mediterranean. Participants will learn the unique style of tambourine playing and the ancient healing trance dance of the tarantella, used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The sessions feature the ancient chants used as an invocation to the healing energy of the sun, the Black Madonna (the ancient Earth Goddess of female energy), the moon, and the Goddess of Water and Love (Aphrodite/Yemanja/Madonna del Mare). March 17, 2015 
https://www.facebook.com/events/792614210808855/

Quite the Moment.

Ballerina by Matthew Nutting making the most of window light. 

www.matthewnuttingphotography.co.uk 

IN Honor of LIFE: listen.

Alessandra Belloni by Hasan Bakr, Jan. 9, 2018.

"Listen to the sounds you cannot hear hearing what others may, or may not hear. At some point, Your honest is clarity, your clarity is gratitude. ~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [10/22/18]

FRINGE CREATURES
© Chiara Fersini, artist

FRINGE CREATURES
by Melissa La Flamme

Wisdom ways say,
don't tell.
Show.

Embody.
Smell.
Move.
Breathe
fire.
Sing honey
rising
from the wellspring.

Notice strong
what residue
lingers
on your damp soul,
what releases
a perfectly
discordant note
off the chart
of your everyday
transactional reality.
What surprising riff
alights
psyche's
true
musk;
incites
a rumble
of courage
in you, as you,
crashing on waves
of ancient anger
running pure
now as protest
to overthrow
everything about you
not authentic,
not of soul.

A revolution
you are,
down and dirty
on some wholly, holy
quest
to call in,
reclaim,
protect
and cultivate
all of you,
your one messy life.
Ruthless in its terrible
Beauty.

Discerning,
calling home
your true nature
from every
other
contortion
is what you do
til you don't;
til Mystery
unhinges you,
frees you
from daylight's
mind-chains,

til the trap door to
crazy-wisdom
creaks open
and chaos
wafts
on ancestral winds,
revealing
abandoned buildings
strewn with
burnt-out bodies
of old lies,
waiting for release.

Ask Impossible
questions,
the real ones
you've avoided
til now.
Ask those Others
who meet you
when you're not looking.

The Ones
on the back roads
dusty with wander,
harbingers of a dangerous
liberation—
rare animals with attitude,
fringe creatures,
sovereign,
free of answers. 

© Melissa La Flamme, 2016, 2017 


Melissa La Flamme's book, "What You Are For: Inciting A Revolution In Your Soul," is available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478753250

Our Feet, Our Stance!

2 women dancing freely with abandon!

Ballet dancer's feet.

Ballet dancer's feet, the structure of

Audrey Hepburn in the Belgian Congo by Leo Fuchs (1959).

Moving with Dance.

Art by Pasckie Pascua titled Pareja de Baile.

acrylic. watercolor. pens. sharpies. pastels. oil. paper canvas. whiteboards. 2017.

"Pareja de Baile." by Pasckie Pascua. The celebration of Life isn't expressed enough for good reasons. But, it has to. Living, as a constant struggle, asks for relief. Such pain, pain and challenge to life, itself looks for relief. The universe we live in works together for the good of Life, and the manifestation of spirit from the body!

And here we have your expression of rejoicing in this medium for the many who thought living could not produce even a glimmer of happiness! ... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/20/17 

AS Marilyn dreamed, we dreamt of

Marilyn Monroe in 1953 dancing at home. The perfect form.

Marilyn Monroe's elegance is a classic form of timeless, not in retrospect, but ever it is present.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

July 25, 2017 

Dance, movement whites didn't know.

Jean Bugatti with the Bugatti Royale ‘Esders’ Roadster in 1932.

Dancers Frankie Manning and Freida Washington

dancing the Lindy Hop.

"Frankie Manning and partner Freida Washington won a contest at the Savoy with his first acrobatic partner-toss. It’s thought that these dramatic flying moves, coming at the time of Lindbergh’s famous flight, inspired the name “Lindy Hop” because of their airborne qualities. Some of the Savoy's finest dancers, including Manning, were recruited to Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, a dance team that was the pinnacle of swing dance. Manning toured the world with them 1936-1943, doing choreography also." - anon   

Jitterbug dancers at a juke joint in 1939!

photo from Library of Congress

American Bandstand, popular in the 1960's into the '70's, showcased white teens who could not dance. It was the Negroes on the show who made the show showing whites how to move to the music." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/28/17 

Grace of this dancer.

Father dreaming...

Father, the protective force . . .

When I see our children dancing something inside of me moves, as I remember how blessed we are today because at one point it was forbidden to dance or make ceremonies in public. We dance and pray to bring the people together and to uplift our spirits and honor those who walked before us in the dream of the living, we will dance forever on this land we call our mother. It's in our blood. - Gianni Crow (April 9, 2017)   

Boy dancing for the People.

"When I was a kid my grandfather asked me this; if you can be anybody today who would you be? A superhero I replayed. He smiled and said, let your superpower always be kindness than." ~ Gianni Crow  

Cooking on old stone

When I was a child I use to wake up to the smell of coffee my grandmother use to make in the adobe kitchen, she was seating by the fire cooking corn tortillas...the fire would dance under the pan made of clay, the wood would crackled as she would sing her songs. She use to tell me: "grandson foods are the medicine for our bodies so it should always be treated with respect for all things are sacred." -Gianni Crow

Burlesque dancers have fun!



burlesque dancers with Sultry Sweet Burlesque & Variety Show.

October 4, 2013 ·

 

burlesque dancers with Sultry Sweet Burlesque & Variety Show.

October 4, 2013 ·

 

 

THERE was a time ...

dancing together Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire in 1942 !!!!

Way Back Then When ...

Abbie Lincoln (Aug. 6, 1930-Aug. 14, 2010) jazz vocalist, composer, actress was also a Civil Rights advocate in the 1960's was born Anna Marie Wooldridge.



Eartha Kitt dancing the jitterbug with one of the Nicholas brothers !!!!

 "... had to be a memorable moment for everyone there. Remembering the times this was a show stopper for the white patronage. So, the only Colored folks were in the kitchen, or onstage. For the whites it was an explosion of moments and awe seeing how the Jitterbug was supposed to be done. It was the same explosive energy whites felt in the 1980's when Break dancing grew out of the Soul Train dancing into something beyond their physical and emotional capacity to dance, or move their bodies!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.13.15

Father to son: spiritual work

Gallery of Sophie Chaudhary

Sophie Chaudhary 

"It takes intelligence to live without the woman you need. Emotional intelligence over time develops the inner man who cannot, in this lifetime, cannot compete with her inner dialogue that fights within herself against herself if that is in the woman your heart loves to love! There are women meant for a man. Not to stroke expectation young man let me clarify something. The response attraction ignites light in the black of night that shows during the length of its life what is in the darkness. A match struck in the dark peels the dark back and the room is seen. See it quickly and remember it because you don't know if the next attempt the match will work.

That being said it is the same with women in our lives. As man a variety of types will be attracted to you and if it is your gift, or a skill developed within you the discernment necessary for relationships with women will illuminate each exchange. When it does you might be able to see the 'intended' form of a woman and know why she was born. The need for a teacher, or a father is important for young men in this arena. Sons need their fathers for the view the father has and the responsibility the father has to help his son separate who 'she' was born to be and is in the present.

In their upbringing women receive stories sometimes that fight against the obvious nature of their natural state of being. These stories can, and do have the capacity to resist developing the woman you've chosen beyond the primary forces of her being because anything more terrifies the debilitating stories her families told her so many years ago.

Now, know this: tragedy does not have to follow the life forces of the women you pull close to you. It could be you! It is important to understand the role of esoteric knowledge in respect to women, pussy, and the laws governing the forces that pull man to woman. What is the belief outweighing the joy of loving? What is the illumination chasing darkness from the soul? What is the soul, the essence of love and its capacity to embolden weakness to become strong and strength to take risks? There are many things a woman can teach a man's manhood, and many things she will unlearn and multiple into the perceptions of existence and knowing. When are magical to men. Together, father to son, we can learn new things about the strongest force on the planet! It never ends the learning in relationships with women!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/11/14

South Pacific woman in the red of her regalia 2

Slow in Motion



Alexa performing art form.
http://www.legsemporium.com/alexa 

 

Gettin' down sexy!



Bethenny Frankel and Jamie Foxx perform on stage at Angel Ball 2014 hosted
by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street.

 

JUST HERSELF

Madonna
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Gallery

Madonna
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Who Colored Woman were ...

burlesque dancer Lola Coquette by Gwen Trahan
on a September 2010 photo shoot !!!!

The picture, the mood takes me back to a few places in my life. One: my mother used to have a robe like that. Two: the coke reminds me how women looked and the atmosphere felt when Colored women took a break from their day towards sunset with laughter, a smoke and a pop. And lastly, the hat reminds me of church; Sunday best when women poor and rich were stylish on Sunday mornings. - Gregory E. Woods, 2.22.15

Respect LIFE

What adventures do we dare create for ourselves? The reverse of a dare is to not dare one's self to live out the adventures of their life and then die unfulfilled! 

"How dare you take the life I gave you and not push out in action those dreams, those adventures!" would be the first reaction to our lives, and the obvious question the Giver of Life would ask after we died, if one's life was so inclined. So many people are afraid of themselves, afraid of mirrors and afraid of living. How could any of us not create? We are creators. To create is our first impression of life after birth, and the first impression worth exploring from first breath to last. 

Instead of asking, "What's in your wallet?" ask, "What's in your mind, your spirit to do, to create? And then create!" Make your life adventure. Make your adventure your life story! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.14.14

athlete Michelle Jenneke seated on stairs !!!!

Michelle Jenneke

Burlesque dancer ina balloon dress created by Buster Balloon Caldwell in a photo by Brandi Crockett !!!!

Burlesque Performer
Bio

Iza la Vamp was a chorus girl on her way to center stage until a freak accident froze her body in a cryogenic freezer. Thankfully, she is now defrosted and ready to perform burlesque. She is finding herself in a different time with different music and history to catch up with. Join her on a burlesque adventure in recreating herself and making sense of all the changes she is encountering. ~ anon 

Email
izalavamp@gmail.com

Website
http://izalavamp.com/ 

PRESENCE in black

principal ballerina of ABT
Misty Copeland

"... principles in black are not necessarily identified by race, or culture. They are the mysteries, the mysterious things we hum about unconsciously conjuring them up from below, and within us by intent."
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
4.15.13

PLAY DANCE

from Mereana Taki's gallery

Kuki Airani hula no Rarotonga

June 9 , 2014