Celebrating Expressions of Love

Gina Pacaldo invites the Dancing Earth community to join in an afternoon of Celebrating Expressions of Love, in honor of her son Enrique Akira Quetzal Allen (May 30, 1986 - November 17, 2024). There will be gentle movement, opportunities to share words, poetry, or music, and of course delicious lunch provided. From Gina: Sending You a breeze embedded with Seeds, Sparks, and Birdsongs to Family, Friends and Relatives to Share Food, Sit, Walk, Talk, Stand, Sing, Dance, Laugh and Remember Together. Be alongside a creek, rocks, and trees within the Japanese Garden. Honoring Ohlone Relative’s Lands, and this Sacred Earth. Honoring Known & Unknown Relatives of our Past, Today and Tomorrow.

This gathering is inspired and propelled forward by Gina's participation in Dancing Earth's upcoming work, , as a mentor for Dancing Earth Bay Area Company member Emma Quan Dewey. All are welcome; this will be a time to gather, connect, move, create and listen to each other in the spirit of .

What is ?

To listen: a seemingly simple yet profound message in times where the wisdom of the earth and the voices of our elders–including our matriarchs and our more-than-human kin–have been drowned in the noise of harmful and loudly extractive & oppressive dominant culture we exist within.

Created in the spirit of Eco-Artivism, is emerging as a multi-sensory, multidisciplinary, site-responsive performance responding to, honor, and celebrate the wisdom of matriarchs and our elder mentors.

As part of a long arc work-in-progress centered in Dancing Earth’s Land Dance practices, we invite audiences to participate in embodied listening to ecologies of land, water, & place, as we honor matriarchs, mentors, and muses of diverse lineages.

Gina Pacaldo is a work in digression and a worker in progress. Gina is fulfilled and emptied while in the “never enough” micro work arena of public education. Amongst a “Beloved Community” of Students, Families and Colleagues, Gina practices listening, being an uplifter, a wannabe comedian and an “experience designer!” Pretending to be an archer like her first Granddaughter, Gina aims for the center over and over - working on being a “pointer and motivator” for each of us to see and do beyond ourselves – to care for ourselves and our nests. Believing we can be better Caretakers of our Planet Earth, our Communities, and our Relatives here and beyond. In the depths of El Gran Cañon, in and out of El Río Colorado, in shades of colored sky, Gina learns to swim, tend fire, cook, and carry on.

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