Dance of Disruption
Poem by Jane Deluzio
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My heart is often filled with worry.
Busy hands calm me.
Stop my heart from overflowing with sadness and anxiety.
My heart is often filled with others’ pain.
Busy hands calm me.
Stretch my heart so that it will not burst or break.
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But my heart fills with joy when I dance.
My freed hands move in harmony with my heart.
Touching everything I feel.
Seeking. Reaching. Healing.
Gratefully I dance in harmony with my soul.
I dance my ever-changing never-changing truths.
Dancing hands and dancing heart.
Body and soul as one.
Duet of tentative survival.
By Jane Deluzio
(Inspired by participating as a community dancer in Karen Kaeja’s Touch X and in MoonHorse’s Older and Reckless.)
Jane has 45 years of dance and drama experience as a teacher, department head, coordinator, instructional leader, vice-principal, AQ instructor, conference speaker and workshop leader. In 1996 she was awarded a Human Rights Citation and a Certificate of Recognition from the Toronto Police for her work with students against Hate Crime. She has worked with teachers in Ontario, Austria, England, Estonia, Germany and Kazakhstan on developing student-centred, brave classrooms with a focus on personal and social creativity, engaged dialogue, and critical thinking that involves bodies as well as minds in motion. A long-time member of CODE, Jane is currently Past-President. She is also a volunteer on the boards of Dreamwalker Dance and Ergo Arts Theatre, and as the Educational Consultant for Bridging Arts Salzburg. A life-time highlight was performing as a senior, alongside Provocations Editor, Christine Jackson, in Karen Kaeja’s TOUCH X at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre, November 2022.
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