The Sacred Dance Guild has been providing education, resources,
and networking about Sacred Dance through its members and volunteer
Board and Committees since 1958. To keep up with the latest
happenings, click on this page every now and then for an "SDG UPDATE"
written by its current President. The links on this page will also
help you stay informed about your Sacred Dance Guild. The latest
update will be the first one you see. Scroll down for dated past
entries.
6/22/2010
Our Simply Soaring Festival and Annual General Meeting are only a month away. Be sure to check out our latest E-Board Newsletter and don't forget to vote for our 2010-2011 Board of Directors. We can hardly wait to dance the sacred all together once again. Here's a sneak preview of what's to come in the Opening, Closing, and Morning Awakenings: These are the words to the body prayer created just for this festival -
SOARING AS ONE
Love is for the giving...
Love is for the recieving...
Open up to loving and you've opened up for/to/with/as God/Goddess/Divine/Spirit...
Then truth will be a part of you...
And peace will live through you...
And grace will have you SOARING AS ONE...
Come soar with us and anticipate having as much fun as Boston's Encore Dancers are having and will have with us at Festival 2010!
5/26/2010
The latest for YOUR Sacred Dance Guild is that we need YOU! We really need YOU to come to our Simply Soaring Sacred Dance Festival.
It just won't be the same without YOU...
We need YOU to become a member of SDG or to renew your membership. We need YOU to help coordinate SDGO Benefit Events and
Traveling Workshops. We need YOU to help us recruit members and donors.
We need YOU to send us news, pictures and vidios of your sacred dancing. Like Jenny Finn, Embodiment Educator www.somamovement.org from
Colorado Springs, did. Check out this student produced video of SDG member Jenny teaching college students "Spiritual Dance" on a ship with "Semester At Sea".
It seems to be part of Divine Order that SDG is
concentrating on "growing and greening" in this United Nations
proclaimed "2010- The International Year For the Rapprochement of
Cultures." As the President of The International Dance Council
(CID) recently wrote "Dance, being a central part of every culture,
constitutes the ideal means for bringing together people from different
countries... For vividly illustrating cultural diversity, for embodying
rapprochement, there is no better means than dance." And we Sacred
Dancers, from every culture, have experienced how dance can enlighten
and brighten our world.
At our SDGO pilot benefit event, CultureFest, we
had a chance to learn a Chinese Fan Dance. Elaine Sisler will offer
"CultureFest Revisited" at our Simply Soaring Festival in July.
We hope to dance with you in this "Reapproachment of Culture" year.
-- JoyBeth for our Sacred Dance Guild
3/16/2010
SIMPLY SOARING, our 2010 Sacred Dance Guild Festival July 26-31 in
New London, CT. USA. is now online. Click for specific information
and to register. There is something for every level of dancer covering
a variety of styles and paths or traditions. I can hardly wait to dance
with all of us at one of our festival highlights new to this year: a
Benefit Communal Mob Flash Dance. As Deborah Mauldin, Executive
Director for The American Dance Guild, one of our reciprocal
organizations,recently wrote me,"In my experience at SDG's Festival,
participants find a unique experience that unifies them as sacred
dancers... I had never felt anything like it!"
This picture is of a group of Cincinnati Ohio women that were
taking a workshop from Lisa Michaels, who will be teaching at our
Festival, SIMPLY SOARING, this summer. They had actively danced
together in a conscious free-form dance setting,fell in love with
dancing, and requested to learn a choreographed dance. It is entitled
"Circle of Stones Celebration Dance, choreographed by Lisa Michaels
with music by Laura Powers, "Circle of Stones". Here is a video of
their first public performance.
We are looking
forward to DANCING THE DIVINE with you this summer!
-- JoyBeth and your Simply Soaring Team
3/3/2010
Whew! SDG dancers have been twirling up a storm since
our February Board Meeting when we really figured out in depth what it
means to "Green and Grow our Guild". We had to choreograph necessary
changes that streamline our finances and work load while increasing our
services and products.
The good news is that we are still dancing the sacred in these
scarey economic times where both volunteer workers and moneys are
getting harder to find. And even more exciting news is that SDG is
embracing the gifts of technology that can help us to become more
visible to the global world that needs us and provide more updated
services and products to our members.
Both our Journal and our Membership Directory are now online and
both are printable by our members. You can see that our website is
becoming more sacred dancer friendly each and every month. Know that
you too can have your Sacred Dance groups picture for all the world to
see the wonderful Divinely inspired dances that we are doing for the
upliftment of all. Just taking a glance at these Canadian Sacred Dance
Children always makes me slow down, take a breath, and make a Blessing
movement.
And we couldn't do all this without the skilful help of our
Virtual Management Company, Next Wave Group. Pat Troy and Next Wave
group have been leaders in the field of Virtual Management which
specializes in using technology to provide database management,
accounting, membership services, publications, web sites, event
management, and much more. For more information click on Virtual
Management on your right. www.nextwavegroup.com
So stay tuned to these SDG Updates and know that we are here to
help us, each and everyone, to inspire one another by dancing the
sacred. Dancing Blessings from your doing the hang ten dance Board of
Directors, JoyBeth and Lisa, Marcia, Mary, Wendy, Linda, Elaine, Kat, and Gail
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1/25/2010
As your SDG Volunteer Board gets ready for its Winter Board Meeting
and we look at everything that is happening right now, I feel like
taking a flying leap with excitement that we will be concentrating on
"GROWING OUR GUILD". SDG is accepting the challenge of this current
recession and its resultant dwindling membership by leaping into the
future to truely becoming a worldwide presence for Sacred Dance in all
its forms.
Here is a picture sent by Australian SDG member Tricia Mary Lee of
The Geegelup Global Spirit Dancers from Yornup, West Australia. They
have just danced at their inaugural public sharing during Christmas
time in a Spiritualist Church in Australia...
Here also is a picture sent by Anne Bishop,USA, of The Sacred Dance
Ensemble of Central Virginia dancing at a Lutheran Church in Virginia,
USA, in March of 2009...
We invite you to share your Sacred Dance pictures with us to put on
our website, news of your dancing for our new "Headlines" website
section, your choreography for our "Resource Library" and much more as
we expand the resources, networking opportunities, and education SDG
has provided for 52 years.
Come Worldwide Sacred Dancers! Our Sacred Dance Guild umbrella is
large enough for ALL! Let's keep the sharing going...
1/1/2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME TO YOUR SACRED DANCE GUILD'S 52ND YEAR!
We really hope to dance with you at "Simply Soaring: A Sacred
Dance Festival" July 26-31, at Connecticut College in New London, CT.
For more information, go to our Festival page. I am
looking forward to learning this month about who this year's Festival
Presenters will be. Our 2010 Festival Faculty Staff Volunteers have
been working hard on the selection these past several months...
For 2010, we are looking for a few SDGO Benefit Concert
Coordinators in a few major cities. Click on our SDGO Link, also to
the right, to find out more about how you could help us to support
dancers in need worldwide...
One of our latest tasks has been to provide our Journal online
for our members to read and then print themselves as they so wish.
This will help us save on printing, trees, postage and volunteer labor.
We will still send printed copies to those members who aren't e-mail
connected and who want to remain recieving a printed copy by "snail
mail". Click on "Update Your Member Profile" on your right to let us know what your choice is.
We want to thank each and everyone of you who have recently
donated your $$'s for our "Annual Letter of Appeal". We would not
exist without YOUR support. Click on our Annual Letter Of Appeal on
your right to review this letter...
As your 2009-2010 President, I look forward to communicating with
Sacred Dancers from around the Globe in 2010. Please let us know how
your Sacred Dancing is going and how we can support your good works for
our precious world.
We really hope to dance with you at "Simply Soaring: A Sacred
Dance Festival" July 26-31, at Connecticut College in New London, CT.
For more information, go to our 
