The girls poised and ready for the dance to begin…
The lovely twins Karina and Steph dancing.
oil on panel / 11×14
Digital Oil Painting. “Why?” He asked. / “Because I was a dancer before I was a painter.”
The ever popular Space Hopper on a t shirt! / . / casse-T-shirt / . / / . / Guitarra GLOW GLOW / . / / . / MORE DESIGNS / . / / / / / / / /
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin / Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in / Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove / Dance me to the end of love / Dance me to the end of love / Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone / Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon / Show me slowly what I only know the limits of / Dance me to the end of love / Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on / Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long / We’re both of us beneath our love, we’re both of us above / Dance me to the end of love / Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the children who are asking to be born / Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn / Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn / Dance me to the end of love Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin / Dance me through the panic till I’m gathered safely in / Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove / Dance me to the end of love / Dance me to the end of love Leonard Cohen
When She Walks She Moves So Fine Like A Flamingo
I took this photo of a lilly and realised, as nice as it was, it was just like the 1001 other lilly photos out there, so I decided to try something a little different… hope u like it! Enjoy! _
My daughter, Grace, taking a break!! Ballet moves her… ...also my first attempt a selective coloring.
...and danced by the light of the moon. Many thanks to my dear friend Lu for her encouraging words. self portrait
NOT FOR SALE / It will be show at Galleries in Israel and Seville as a Limit and numered Series of only 15 copies. / Price:1500 Euros / If you are interested please send me a mail. FROM LIMITED SERIES / TOKIO WOMAN / AFRICA / / LOOKING FOR THE SEPIA / EL EQUILIBRIO DE LA MUJER FLOR / / / NIRVANA / XXI CENTURY / / / THE SADNESS OF THE PHARAOH / / / DELIRIUM / / / ORGASM / CARNIVAL / THE SAXOPHONE /
Field of Dreams Available as a framed art print, mounted print, canvas print and greeting card. / Image copyright © 2008 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
This is the Cosmos in full bloom- it reminds me of a young girl dancing for sheer joy and twirling her skirt-maybe you see it as just another pretty flower- beauty is in ….... Size approx 3” inches taken with a fuji A600 Digital Camera
Ebony, studio dance, 2008.
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Steph, studio dance, 2008.
Having earlier photographed Grace (6) playing and dancing in front of a pink sheet on the washing line, I later got the idea of having her ‘hold’ one of the earlier images but keeping still. (She actually held a white sheet of paper onto which I layered the second image.) Both shot the same day using a Canon 400D, natural light.
Poem by Linaji Frivolity and Passion / fused evenly / Dancing queen in pink / frivolous to the end / Passion sings in pure wink / a steady flow of romance / lending each other hand in hand, / a way to fly to the story / that ends in a union fit for life / unseen and unheard of / but created none the less / You see… / the roots are deeper than you think INSPIRED BY DANCING QUEEN AHHH IF ONLY LIFE COULD SAY.. SCREW IT ..LETS DANCE!!
Some say the modern day Pow Wow competition dance known as the Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance has its roots in a ceremonial dance called the Butterfly Dance. Here is a Cherokee account of how that dance came to be. I’ve been told the Shoshone have a similar story but I heard this version from Cherokee dancers in North Carolina. These dancers told me the Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance is a representation of the following Butterfly Legend: Many, many years ago when the Earth was still quite new, there was a beautiful butterfly who lost her mate in battle. To show her grief, she took off her beautiful wings and wrapped herself in a drab cocoon. In her sadness, she could not eat and she could not sleep and her relatives kept coming to her lodge to see if she was okay. Of course she wasn’t, but she didn’t want to be a burden on her people so she packed up her wings and her medicine bundle and took off on a long journey. She wandered about for many days and months, until finally she had gone all around the world. (To this day, butterflies go on long journeys, but that is another story.) On her journey she kept her eyes downcast and stepped on each stone she came to as she crossed fields and creeks and streams. Finally, one day as she was looking down, she happened to notice the stone beneath her feet, and it was so beautiful that it healed her sorrow. She then cast aside her cocoon, shook the dust from her wings, and donned them once more. She was so happy she began to dance to give thanks for another chance to begin her life anew. Then she went home and told The People about her long journey and how it had healed her. To this day,The People dance this dance as an expression of renewal, and to give thanks for new seasons, new life, and new beginnings. The shawl in the Fancy Shawl Dance represents the butterfly’s wings, the fancy steps and twirls represent the butterfly’s style of flight. This is another reason you will sometimes hear the Fancy Shawl Dance Competition referred to as ” the butterfly dance.” At Crow Fair in Montana, I was told another story about the Fancy Shawl Dance. While the Crow people also equate this dance form as an expression of re-emergence and renewal of life forces, they have a very different explanation of how it began. Their version goes like this: When the men returned from World War II, many of them were impressed with the dance troupes they had seen perform in Europe, and the colorful clothing the European dancers wore. A transformation began in the Men’s Traditional Dances as these men began to incorporate bright colors into their traditional outfits, and add aerobic movements into their interpretation of traditional dances. This evolved into a very strenuous dance competition category called the Fancy Dance. The young ladies of the time thought this looked like a lot of fun and they wanted to try it, too. Not to be out done by the men, some of these bold young women began to strap two bustles to their backs and compete in the Men’s Fancy Dance category at pow wows. Well, as you can imagine,this did not go over very well with the men, who were outraged at women who were forward enough to push their way into a MAN’s category of competition. (Remember, this was the 1940’s.) What was even worse, many times the women were beating the men in competition! This was considered pretty disgraceful from the men’s point of view, yet they also had to keep their women happy. Eventually, a council of Elders got together to ponder what they could do about this pitiful situation. After much thought and consideration,it was decided to give the ladies their own category of Fancy Dance, but something more regal and graceful, which was more suited to the expected behavior of women. The Elders decided that the Butterfly Dance would be suitable for adaptation to this new dance style for women. Thus, the Fancy Shawl Dance category was begun in modern competitions. By the way, the Crow Fair All Indian Rodeo and Pow Wow is coming up the third weekend in August at Crow Agency, Montana. If you only go to one pow wow in your lifetime, this is the one I would recommend. It’s the largest outdoor powwow in America, and there are over 1,000 tipis in the encampment, which has earned it the title of “Tipi Capital of the World.” Read more about: / Dance Regalia of the Fancy Shawl Dancer / How the Fancy Shawl Dance Competition is Judged / Crow Fair
Could the universe have a soul, and we are that soul with the entire cosmos for a body? ~Ernesto Cardinale ~ I absolutely love Cosmos – the flower and the outer state, they are both simply confusingly abundant with life and beauty. The Cosmoses remind me how small we really are on the great world we stand on, how significantly insignificant we are yet together create something beautiful, a unique pattern for each section, like our DNA. Just love the thought provoking beauty of it! / This is an edited version of the one below: /
Featured in ALL ORIGINAL BLENDS This picture is also part of a calendar
Sakura / 22” x 36” / Acrylic and Sumi e Ink / . Music by Shakira and Mylene Farmer / . / 464 views so far / . Featured in Live and Let Live Group / . / Featured in Painted Ladies / . / Featured in Faces & Florals / . / . I was inspired by the great Chinese Artist Hung Liu… such a fantastic art show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D / . / . / I let my music and imagination take over / dancing from one room to the next… with every step…. revealing a mischievous secret. / ~ Ming Myaskovsky / . / .
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