Dancing Poetry

Dancing Poetry Festival 2020, Sessions 1

Our first effort to have an electronic Dancing Poetry Festival has been most interesting. Our wonderful, live, one time only, performance, in the beautiful theater of a world class art museum, could not be done this year due to Covid-19 virus. We have combined our new dances to poetry, recorded via Zoom from the homes of the dancers, with archival footage of previous Dancing Poetry Festivals. Also included are announcements of newly published poetry books, interviews of poets with particularly interesting topics relating to promoting understanding and peace which is one of the prime purposes of the Dancing Poetry Festivals and its parent organization, Artists Embassy International.

Please forgive the quality of photos. Taking pix off the computer screen is not as good as taking live photos!

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

Technical Director, Arthur Levinson

Produced by Artists Embassy International

Artistic Director, Natica Angilly

Host dance troupe, Poetic Dance Theater Company

Introduction

Lists of prize winning poets to read in this session, members of Natica and Richard Angilly's

Poetic Dance Theater Company, host dance troupe for the Dancing Poetry Festival, 2020

Short history and purpose of Dancing Poetry Festival

Voice, byRichard Angilly, read by Natica Angilly, encore performance of PDTC

Reading by Natica Angilly from Journey to Wisdom, Memoir of Althya Youngman, founder of Artists

Embassy International, published by AEI, distributed by Amazon

Connection Richard Angilly, read by Natica Angilly, encore performance by PDTC

Dancers introduce selves

Wind Music by Richard Angilly, PDTC virtual performance via Zoom

Book Introduction, Journey to Wisdom, Memoir of Althya Youngman, founder of Artists Embassy

International as told to Mary Rudge, edited by Alisha Rodrigues and Natica Angilly, published by

Artists Embassy International, distributed by Amazon

Voyage Into Today by Richard Angilly, PDTC virtual performance via Zoom

Prize winning poets read via Zoom

Walking Tightrope GP Garrett Murphy, PDTC virtual performance via Zoom

All of Us Are We book introduction by Judy Hardin Cheung, published by AEI, distributed by Amazon

Prize winning poets read via Zoom

Pageantry of Masks, masks by Alisha, PDTC virtual performance via Zoom

San Francisco Peace and Hope, interview with Elizabeth Hack

Welcome to Wonderland by Richard Angilly, encore signature finale of the PDTC

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