Expansion and Contraction: Let's Dance with Kelly Buwalda
02/03/21 • 58 min
so excited to share this episode #72 with Kelly Buwalda. We get into dance, thai massage, performance, why do babies dance and how we innately crave rhythm. We talk about singing to dogs, dancing for water with children and moving on air on rooftops. What am I talking about? Listen to find out more!
This episode is full of ideas to get you moving and shaking and climbing mountains in your mind and in the world. For example, Kelly was inspired by another quietly strong woman to climb Kilimanjaro for her 40th birthday and she shares some of the struggles and support from that journey.
A little bit more about my guest today.
Ways to get inspired and move more and how our efforts and accomplishments are
Kelly Buwalda is an artist, educator, and adventurer. She is propelled by creativity and fueled by connection. Originally from Indiana, she has been creating and collaborating in NYC for nearly 20 years. After acquiring her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance & Psychology at Hope College (Holland, MI), she trained with National Dance Institute (NDI), a far-reaching dance education program founded by Jacques d'Amboise. She became a Teaching Artist with NDI in 2005, and has since taught thousands of elementary students, and directed At the River's Edge, NDI's 2018 "Event of the Year." As a dancer, she performed for numerous project-based companies, working with choreographers Mei-Yin Ng, Erin Dudley, and Julio Rivera. In 2010, she graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and became a certified Health Coach. Years later, she studied Intuitive Thai Therapy with Sarah Seeley, and currently offers wellness sessions for groups and individuals. Kelly was awarded a 3-month artist-in-residency at Chez Bushwick in 2014, and her choreography was selected for Detroit Dance City Festival in 2016 & 2017. She will be premiering solo dance films created during COVID with filmmaker Fred Hatt on February 3, 2021. Among these and other pursuits, she loves her new role as dog mama.
About to hop to it , but before we do, I have a major favor to ask. If you like this show, please share it with a friend. Big thanks to you for your support, for listening and for doing what you do!
Lets jump in! cha cha cha.
Links
https://www.instagram.com/buwalda.wellness/
https://www.instagram.com/eyesofbuwalda/
Thyme in the Studio links:
https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AidaZeaArts
https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/
Contact me: [email protected]
Music by @corrinarepp
https://www.instagram.com/corrinarepp/
Topics covered:
Long Version available on Patreon:
Meditation
Behind the scenes
Kintsugi
Hilma af Klimt
Accessible art
Enneagram
Criticism and feedback
Short version:
What brings us together
Helping, healing connecting
Childhood
Birth order
Aspirational
Performance
Ritual of costume choreography and production
Gotham writing courses
Moving to music
Babies dance to the beat
Heartbeat as the drumbeat
Impulse to move to music
Honoring teachers
Jacques d'Amboise-as an influential teacher
1st thing we ever hear is the heartbeat
Big bang and the big move
Studying with Christine Wright
Starting class with meditation
Starting from our senses
Grasping when a fish out of water
Language centers in the brain
Analytical in dance
Getting back to the lower part of the brain
Overintellectualizing
Dance trance
Less about what I think and more about what I feel
Music and dance work together in cross hemisphere.
Feeling safe allows for deeper creative exploration
Auditioning process
Principles of ayurveda
Techniques to get grounded
Sensitivity during the creative process
Energy visible in the body.
Magnetism
Pulling in and channeling energy
Star energy meditation
Drama/wisdom of Martha Graham
Expansion and contraction
Physicality helps to land
Being tired can increase mental clarity
Sense of de...
so excited to share this episode #72 with Kelly Buwalda. We get into dance, thai massage, performance, why do babies dance and how we innately crave rhythm. We talk about singing to dogs, dancing for water with children and moving on air on rooftops. What am I talking about? Listen to find out more!
This episode is full of ideas to get you moving and shaking and climbing mountains in your mind and in the world. For example, Kelly was inspired by another quietly strong woman to climb Kilimanjaro for her 40th birthday and she shares some of the struggles and support from that journey.
A little bit more about my guest today.
Ways to get inspired and move more and how our efforts and accomplishments are
Kelly Buwalda is an artist, educator, and adventurer. She is propelled by creativity and fueled by connection. Originally from Indiana, she has been creating and collaborating in NYC for nearly 20 years. After acquiring her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance & Psychology at Hope College (Holland, MI), she trained with National Dance Institute (NDI), a far-reaching dance education program founded by Jacques d'Amboise. She became a Teaching Artist with NDI in 2005, and has since taught thousands of elementary students, and directed At the River's Edge, NDI's 2018 "Event of the Year." As a dancer, she performed for numerous project-based companies, working with choreographers Mei-Yin Ng, Erin Dudley, and Julio Rivera. In 2010, she graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and became a certified Health Coach. Years later, she studied Intuitive Thai Therapy with Sarah Seeley, and currently offers wellness sessions for groups and individuals. Kelly was awarded a 3-month artist-in-residency at Chez Bushwick in 2014, and her choreography was selected for Detroit Dance City Festival in 2016 & 2017. She will be premiering solo dance films created during COVID with filmmaker Fred Hatt on February 3, 2021. Among these and other pursuits, she loves her new role as dog mama.
About to hop to it , but before we do, I have a major favor to ask. If you like this show, please share it with a friend. Big thanks to you for your support, for listening and for doing what you do!
Lets jump in! cha cha cha.
Links
https://www.instagram.com/buwalda.wellness/
https://www.instagram.com/eyesofbuwalda/
Thyme in the Studio links:
https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AidaZeaArts
https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/
Contact me: [email protected]
Music by @corrinarepp
https://www.instagram.com/corrinarepp/
Topics covered:
Long Version available on Patreon:
Meditation
Behind the scenes
Kintsugi
Hilma af Klimt
Accessible art
Enneagram
Criticism and feedback
Short version:
What brings us together
Helping, healing connecting
Childhood
Birth order
Aspirational
Performance
Ritual of costume choreography and production
Gotham writing courses
Moving to music
Babies dance to the beat
Heartbeat as the drumbeat
Impulse to move to music
Honoring teachers
Jacques d'Amboise-as an influential teacher
1st thing we ever hear is the heartbeat
Big bang and the big move
Studying with Christine Wright
Starting class with meditation
Starting from our senses
Grasping when a fish out of water
Language centers in the brain
Analytical in dance
Getting back to the lower part of the brain
Overintellectualizing
Dance trance
Less about what I think and more about what I feel
Music and dance work together in cross hemisphere.
Feeling safe allows for deeper creative exploration
Auditioning process
Principles of ayurveda
Techniques to get grounded
Sensitivity during the creative process
Energy visible in the body.
Magnetism
Pulling in and channeling energy
Star energy meditation
Drama/wisdom of Martha Graham
Expansion and contraction
Physicality helps to land
Being tired can increase mental clarity
Sense of de...
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/
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https://www.kuow.org/stories/out-of-a-summer-of-black-grief-insisting-on-black-joy
Thyme in the Studio links:
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https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/
Contact me: [email protected]
Music by Corrina Repp
@corrinarepp
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The medicine of rest in the body
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Behind the scenes of doula work
Beginning of birth and doula
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Therapy is a good idea
Grief dance
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Postpartum is not something to mess with
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Long version available on Patreon
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Ideal cultural dream
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What it has meant to witness people in postpartum
Terminating pregnancy
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Ritual of releasing others energy
Writing as a ritual of reflection
Long version available on Patreon
( 10 more minutes of behind the scenes chats)
figuring out the next steps
Ideal cultural dream Energetics of instagram
Morning pages ritual
Death doula work
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