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Daring to Dance to a Different Beat

April 5, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

It’s tempting as we get older to think that we need to be on just one path. Or that when we make a decision we have to stick with it. Or even that our head knows best what to do – we talk ourselves into making decisions we think are ‘smart’ or ‘best’ without ever […]

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What We Can All Learn From Dancers

February 13, 2013 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

It’s safe to say that that I started my career as a dancer. I started taking ballet lessons at age 7, which lead to lessons later in tap, jazz and modern/contemporary. It was through dance that I got involved in community theatre doing musicals, which lead to doing plays, and opera and eventually moving to […]

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The Dance of Teamwork and the Value of Sprezzatura

February 6, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

That’s me, third from the left in the photo above. It was taken this past weekend at the Middle Temple, one of the famous Inns of Court in London, and where the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. I was working with an historic dance and drama company called Nonsuch to perform a Candelmas celebration.  […]

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