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Presenting poetry and dance as a unified art form

Welcome to the website of 
Artists Embassy International
and
Natica and Richard Angilly's 
Poetic Dance Theater Company

Image: 
Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company in their Grand Finale number from a previous Dancing Poetry Festival. For Winners lists, text of the Grand Prize Winning Poems and photos of the afternoon's festivities for the past few years, click on Winners & Festival for that year then choose the pages.
If any link on this site does not work when clicked, please select and copy, then paste into the browser at the top of email screen. Click "Return" or OK" and this should take you to the site for our fabulous presentations.  Thank you.

29th Dancing Poetry Festival
Please join us
at any time for Part 1
  https://youtu.be/rkjKVuyX_KA 

Please join us
at any time for Part 2

https://youtu.be/U6JdAAjYhYk

Please join us
at any time for Part 3
https://youtu.be/XYe5NIxGmxs
We hope you enjoy our fabulous presentations
of poetry and dance as a unified art form
furthuring peace and understanding 
though the arts

Dancing Poetry Festival Program 1

Dancing Poetry Festival Welcome

     Richard and Natica Angilly

     and technical editor Arthur Levinson

Poetic Dance Revealed with MC Raoul Epling

What makes a poem want to dance:

     read from Art of Awe 2, The Power of Your Creative Spirit

Classic poetic dance performed in Washington D.C. 1989

Artists Embassy International Gold Seal Book Award for:

     River of Stars, Poet’s of the Vineyards Anthology,

     editor Judy Hardin Cheung

Poetic Dance Theater Company

     2022 premier of New Zephyrs

Awarded poets present their Prize Winning work:

     Dad Fats, and Me, by Abbie Johnson Taylor.

     El Verbo Entregarse, by Jabez Churchill,

     Tango, by James Tweedie.

A Dancing poem with The Poet and The Dancer

     Organic music

Awarded poets present their Prize Winning work:

     Little League, by Patricia Ann Donovan

     Blue Earth, Minnesota Elk Herd at Sunset,

          by Rosalind Braga

     My Story as Told by Dirt, by Rosalind Braga

     White Canes. by Louise Moises

     Tree Dancing, by Louise Moises

     Peace is...  by Louise Moises

A Grand Prize Dancing Poetry Festival Premier performance:

Peace is... by Louise Moises

     Performed by the Poetic Dance Theater Company.

Awarded poets present their Prize Winning work:

     Heartening Back, by Cathy Dana

     The Balloon Man, by Zoe Mink Fuller

Poetry with Dance: Welcome to Wonderland and

     poem dedicated to all poets, Poets of the Call

     written and read by Richard Angilly

     in performance with the Poetic Dance Theater Company.

Invitation to part 2 and part 3

     of the 2022 Dancing Poetry Festival


Annual Dancing Poetry Festival Part 2

Premier October 15, 2022, Noon

Welcome

Shall We Hold The Earth In Our Hands, poem by Natica Angilly

in performance with The Poetic Dance Theater Company

Dancing poem tribute to the voice of the poet with Richard and Natica Angilly

Benefits of Fusion, excerpts read from her book, Romance of Poetry and Dance, by Natica Angilly

Balancing on the Brink of the Present, poem by Judy Hardin Cheung

performed by The Poetic Dance Theater Company

Awarded Poets performing in first half of Part 2:

Patricia Doyne, Hayward, CA, The Language of Butterflies

Patricia Doyne, Hayward, CA, The Great Wave of Kanegawa

Gail Denham, Sunriver, OR, Ruined Plans of 2020

Jennifer Lagier, Monterey, CA, Naked Ladies

Awarded Poets performing in second half of Part 2:

Ken Peterson, Alameda, CA, Self Portrait, Van Gogh

Tanya Joyce, Emeryville, CA, Advice from the Continued Songs of Milarepa

Lisa Rafel, Oakland, CA, Inside Your Body, Grand Prize for the Dancing Poetry Festival, 2022

Inside Your Body, poem by Lisa Rafel, Oakland, CA, performed by Poetic Dance Theater Company

2022 Artists Embassy International Gold Seal Book Awards

Why Read Poetry Out Loud, interview with Tanya Joyce, author of Modern Muses,

SF Peace and Hope, an Anthology of Poetry and Paintings,interview with Elizabeth Hack

creator of the web magazine: SFpeaceandhopetribute to Ukraine.

Not Your Teacher's Haiku, interview with Ken Petersen, author of Not Your Teacher's Haiku

Explaining why “Nearly everything you know or have ever heard about haiku may be mistaken”

Soleil, poem by Jeed (Ronda Hollie) performed by Banat El Hoggar

choreography by Jeed (Ronda Hollie)

Light Temple, poem by Tatzeena, performed by Tatzeena’s Serpent Sirens

written, read, choreographed and filmed by Tatzeena.

Dancing Poetry classic from the International Poetry Film 1987 Grand Prize Winner

In Passage, performed by the Poetic Dance Theater Company

Special thanks for the new poetry collection, River of Stars Anthology of Poets of the Vineyards,

Judy Hardin Cheung, editor

Your cordial invitation to return to Part 3 of the Dancing Poetry Festival, 2022

to premier on YouTube November 5, 2022



Dancing Poetry Festival 2021  YouTube Links

28th Annual Dancing Poetry Festival Act 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaCShOK5zzA

28th Annual Dancing Poetry Festival Act 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJhfGsf298

Both acts are available at any time for your convinience

Dancing Poetry Festival 2020

Available on YouTube in 4 parts:

DPF 2020 Session 1: Zoom link: https://youtu.be/-ks4u40yLm4

DPF 2020 Session 2: Zoom Link: https://youtu.be/-d-LB9ThTfs

DPF 2020 Session 3: Zoom Link: https://youtu.be/ytXhjEkuD0g

DPF 2020 Session 4: Zoom Link:  https://youtu.be/BYvusZAb8-k


Additional YouTube Links to performances by

The Poetic Dance Theater Company

https://youtube.com/user/havefun2060



The Dancing Poetry Festival and Natica and Richard  Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company are sponsored by Artists Embassy International, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding and peace through the universal language of the arts, founded in 1951 by Althya Youngman.

This website gives news of upcoming events related to Artists Embassy International, Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company, the Annual Dancing Poetry Contest and the Annual Dancing Poetry Festival, and selected related activities which promote the concept of world peace and understanding through the universal language of the arts.

For further information on the Dancing Poetry Contest,
      please check our Contest Rules Page and our  Grand Prize winners pages

on each of the annual Dancing Poetry tabs
      or contact Contest Chair, Judy Cheung, at jhcheung@comcast.net 

Deadline to receive poetry for the Dancing Poetry Contest is postmark date of  April 15 of each year to allow for enough time to judge, choreograph and create the dances chosen from the prize winning poems to be presented at the Dancing Poery Festival, usually in September of each year.


For further information on how to be invited to dance in the 25th Dancing Poetry Festival 
please contact Natica Angilly at naticaaei@aol.com   or   dancingpoetry@aol.com

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