Book Reading and Chapel Service
Dancing from Loss to Life
Reflections on moving through grief
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Oakland, CA
One time events Feb 17th and Feb 23rd
Maggie Kast and Cynthia Winton-Henry dance as if life depended on it. February 17th and 23rd they reveal that for them, dance and mourning are not opposite.
Dancing from Loss to Life
Wednesday, February 17, 7:15-8:30 pm
at InterPlayce
A Book Reading with Maggie Kast and Cynthia Winton-Henry, music by ritualist and singer songwriter Holly Shere.
Pacific School of Religion Chapel
Tuesday, February 23rd, 11:10 am-noon
PSR Chapel, 1798 Scenic Ave Berkeley, CA
Cynthia Winton-Henry, Maggie Kast, Carla deSola and members of the InterPlay community create and facilitate this chapel service. Allow time for parking!
In Maggie Kast''s book The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer''s memoir of loss, faith and family, she tells of the accidental death of her three-year-old daughter. At the peak of a career in modern dance, Kast is shattered by the death. Raised without religion and now mired in grief, she senses a persistent connection to the little girl, a love somehow more powerful than the brute fact of death. Struggling to continue her work and care for the rest of her children, including a child with developmental challenges, she slowly discovers a world of spirit wider and deeper than the secular and artistic one in which she was raised.
In Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, Cynthia Winton-Henry portrays joy and bravery in a life where loss and recovery are constant. One year, during her PhD in death and dying, someone dies every six weeks: a friend, a parent, an institution, her own soul. Drowning in grief, she realizes that dance is more than expression. It saves her. From this wisdom she follows the dance of life even when it calls her to let go of ordination in order to be faithful. Winton-Henry also shares her practices in Dance: A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice published by SkyLight Paths Publishing Company.
Dancing from Loss to Life
Wednesday, February 17, 7:15-8:30 pm
at InterPlayce
A Book Reading with Maggie Kast and Cynthia Winton-Henry, music by ritualist and singer songwriter Holly Shere.
Pacific School of Religion Chapel
Tuesday, February 23rd, 11:10 am-noon
PSR Chapel, 1798 Scenic Ave Berkeley, CA
Cynthia Winton-Henry, Maggie Kast, Carla deSola and members of the InterPlay community create and facilitate this chapel service. Allow time for parking!
In Maggie Kast''s book The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer''s memoir of loss, faith and family, she tells of the accidental death of her three-year-old daughter. At the peak of a career in modern dance, Kast is shattered by the death. Raised without religion and now mired in grief, she senses a persistent connection to the little girl, a love somehow more powerful than the brute fact of death. Struggling to continue her work and care for the rest of her children, including a child with developmental challenges, she slowly discovers a world of spirit wider and deeper than the secular and artistic one in which she was raised. In Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, Cynthia Winton-Henry portrays joy and bravery in a life where loss and recovery are constant. One year, during her PhD in death and dying, someone dies every six weeks: a friend, a parent, an institution, her own soul. Drowning in grief, she realizes that dance is more than expression. It saves her. From this wisdom she follows the dance of life even when it calls her to let go of ordination in order to be faithful. Winton-Henry also shares her practices in Dance: A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice published by SkyLight Paths Publishing Company.Cost: FREE
Registration/Information: InterPlay office: 510/465-2797, info@interplay.org
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
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Leaders
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.