Eva Dances
A question: why are we doing this, putting so much energy into protecting freedom of speech, the freedom to flourish? Why care about the encroachments of Islam?
I've recently done a tribute to my 87-year-old dancer teacher, Eva, once a celebrated Canadian dancer, founder of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal. I met Eva long after that, when she was in her mid-seventies, giving classes at a fitness center.
Why bring her up? Her life - her lifelong love of dance - would have no place in an Islamic world. The freedom of men and women to dance together, touch each other when dancing - that would be gone. The whole dance world would be gone. The freedom to follow one's creative passions - gone.
Why do a tribute to Eva? I see her life as, in so many ways, a celebration of following one's passion, and also passing on this love.
Here's the tribute.
Eva von Gencsy and Pierre
Hardy, 2012 - Eva at 87, dancing
Eva
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Here's the history of the tribute. I wrote the words years ago as a birthday gift to Eva. This year - finally - a friend recorded Eva saying the words, another friend took photos of Eva dancing, 2 musicians composed and recorded, and I've done the web page. A group effort. And a video is planned. In the meantime, Eva still teaches dance, gives a weekly dance class at a cancer survivor center, and gives me a lesson as often as we can get together.
I'm so glad to have Eva in my life, and to be able to do a tribute to her, and to her living a live she loves.
Elsa
November 11, 2012
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To go from this blog journal on a dance poem,
written as a tribute to a life lived following one's love,
to the tribute, I Love Dance,
click here.
To go from this diary blog on a dance song
to another poem written with passion,
this time a political rap,
The Joker Is Wild,
click here.
Eva Dances. Dance Poem, Dance Song.
Tribute to Eva, Dancer, 87.
I love to dance, I love dance,
live dance, all my life long.
Eva dancing in dance poems
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