Articles

Dancing My Way to Health by Alice Fateah Saunders

As I sat on Sherborne station this morning waiting for the train to Penzance, my guitar and laptop beside me, I remembered being asked some years ago: "What have the Dances of Universal Peace done for you?" I recalled this with some amusement, because without the Dances I wouldn't have had either a guitar or laptop, neither would I have been boarding a train for Penzance, nor even would I have been living in Dorset... [read more]

We Circle Around A short history of the Dances, by Neil Douglas-Klotz

"We circle around, We circle around, the boundaries of the earth, the boundaries of the earth...."

The words of the Arapaho Ghost Dance echo through a hall crowded with people who sing, hold hands and move in concentric circles. Like the original Ghost Dancers, these dancers focus their movement and voices on bringing peace and justice to earth...[read more]