Nancy Stark Smith Memorial Documentation
  • Home
  • Part 1:Origins
  • Part 2: In the Garden
  • Part 3:Around the Fire
  • Links/Comments/Support
  • Home
  • Part 1:Origins
  • Part 2: In the Garden
  • Part 3:Around the Fire
  • Links/Comments/Support
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

Part 1 : Origins


Invocation text

     Let us take this first minute to feel
 all around the world
the circle of love for Nancy in us.
The circle holds our love of her,
which is her body now.
Nancy, we know you are with us.
And it was always your work, your play, your adventure 
to expand the sphere of what we're aware of,
and now, in your passing,
the sphere just gets bigger,
including embracing
the non-physical with the physical,
the emotions of our hearts
with the sensations of your presence
on all those subtle levels.
You were famous, Dear, for your daring, for your trust
in your own instincts, in your partner,
in the forces of nature.
On so many levels what we all practiced with you
were different kinds of that trust-
all the trust it takes to say something
when you're not even quite sure what you're saying,
or to do something when you don't know where it's coming from--
with your famous, beautiful quote--
When you are somewhere
you don't know where you are,
it is one of the most precious places
improvisation can take you,
for that is the place
with the most possible
directions...
If the world ever needed such wisdom, it is needs it now.
So as we convene this circle let us expand our trust
to trust that you are here ​with us. 

Order of Speakers  

00:00   Arrivals & Welcome with host Christina Svane
00:4:29  Mike Vargas Message read by Christie
00:5:50  Invocation / Excerpts from Fall After Newton 
00:11:00  Cantor Shayna De Lowe,  Sacred Jewish Songs 
00:18:15  Jim Coleman, Slideshow of Nancy Dancing    
                                                                        Music: Bill O´Haire  
00:19:50 Steve Clorfeine, Heart Sutra / Reflections
00:26:30  Susan Berenzweig (Sister), Slideshow 
00:35:42  Adam Berenzweig (Nephew), Reflections
00:41:11 Julie Kligerman (Niece), Reflections
00:44:35 Judith Peavey, Memories since Great Neck
00;53:04  Steve Paxton, Reflections
00;56:52   Lisa Nelson,  Reflections / Video
1:03:34  Simone Forti,  Reflections
1:09:33  Daniel Lepkoff, Video/Poem
1:15:21  Nita Little,  Reflections
1:20:47  Lanny Harrison, Reflections 
1:23:55  Hannah Pearl Walcott,  Reflections
1:26:56   Alan Ptashek,  Reflections
1:34:18   Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen,  Reflections
1:39:46  Ruth Zaporah,  Reflections
1:47:51  Meredith Monk,  Reflections
1:51:37  Karen Nelson, Excerpts of duet w/Nancy
                           Acapella Motion, 1990 / Poem
1:54:49   K.J. Holmes, Weight Song
2:00:32   Ray Chung, Video of Group 6  + photos
2:06:57   Wendy Perron, Reflections +  Reading from
                                 her book Grand Union  
2:13:06   Ann Cooper Albright, Reflections live
                              from Warner Gym, Oberlin Ohio
2:16:28   Diane Louie, Poem for Nancy
2:20:41   Christina Svane Closing Part 1 / 
               Recording by Mike Vargas,  The Bells of Rennes, 

Program

Picture

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.