Dear Ones,

Keely Garfield Dance (KGD) will present an encore performance of Mandala at New York Live Arts: Live Ideas 2018/Radical Vision Festival on April 21st at 7.30pm.

Radical Vision is informed by a desire to find the temerity to change the things we cannot accept. How do we not simply protect democracy, but make it stronger? What are new (radical) ways forward—ways that go to the roots of our current democratic crisis? The festival will present five days of activity around the idea of an open society, to imagine its future and understand its past. Through public forums, performances, readings and workshops, we will conduct a forward-looking, critical appraisal of key democratic institutions including the press, technology corporations, criminal justice, electoral process.

Tickets and Information here Live Ideas/Radical Visions - Resistance & Friends.

“What forms can we create in modern society that will be conducive to seeing the oneness of life? What are the forms that will make it easier to experience interconnectedness?" - Zen Peacemakers Order.

This inquiry motivates Mandala, an act of dance that unites movers and makers in communal listening, embodied ritual, and a call to social action. Part folk, part protest, and part shamanic-rite, Mandala asserts that there is valor in dancing, and valor can move from individual bodies into the body of the world, activate positive change, and transform the times.

Mandala is performed by yours truly and a star-powered cast Paul Hamilton, Raja Feather Kelly, Emma Rose Brown, Angie Pittman, Doug LeCours, Eleanor Smith, Dwayne Brown, Carlo Antonio Villaneuva, Lawrence Goldhuber, Jamel West, and spirited guest artist students from Lang Dance, The New School.

Mandala - photo Ian Douglas, costumes Morgane Le Fay

SAVE THE DATE! LANG DANCE/THE NEW SCHOOL
New work by Keely Garfield for Lang Dance Students
at
NYLA
May 4th & 5th, 7.30pm
New York Live Arts! 219 W19th Street
info@newyorklivearts.org

NEW YOGA CLASSES AND REIKI TRAININGS
This Spring I am teaching a bunch of NEW yoga classes and offering First Degree Reiki, and Second Degree Reiki Trainings.

New! Gaiam Wellness Studio by Rodney Yee
Lord & Taylor, 11th Floor
Mindful Mondays: 12pm to 1pm
Yoga Flow and Meditation

Wednesdays 6.30pm to 8pm
Practice & Sit: With Rodney Yee & Keely Garfield

Thursdays 6pm to 7.45pm
Restore & Explore: Urban Zen & Self-Care Essentials

Info and Sign-Up Here.

New! Coming Soon...Yoga Shanti Tribeca
28 Warren Street, NYC
Fridays 12pm to 1pm Shanti Flow
Saturdays 9.15am to 10.45am Shanti Open

First Degree Reiki Training One Day Intensives
May 19th - Bhakti Barn (New Jersey)
May 20th - Gaiam Wellness Studio (Midtown)
June 10th - Five Pillars Yoga (UES)

Second Degree Reiki Training One Day Intensive
May/June Dates TBD (Brooklyn)

*Please reach out to me directly if you are interested in any of the Reiki Trainings.

Gassho and Love,
Keely