a long goodbye
We stand at the threshold of the doorway. The Patient is an elderly woman, leaning on her left...
The State of Dance
Dancing exists in my body and imagination even when I’m going about my day-to-day activities not dancing. Its...
Anatomy of listening: The Shape of Stones
One afternoon in the hospital I was working with and elder, I will call him Jim. He was...
Anatomy of listening: Gold
These encounters I am lucky enough to participate in, somehow are suspended somewhere until I find myself one...
Anatomy of listening: Wild and Precious
The nurse called to the patient ‘they are dancers – they have come to dance for you.‘ The nurse...
Anatomy of listening: Grey – Like the Moon
A man sits up in his bed. He looks over the bay, I nod gently twice, to communicate that...
Anatomy of listening: I Love You
‘I Love you’ the patient silently releases this word from her lips with no sound. We have only just...
Anatomy of listening: Dancing Ventriloqism
I often wonder how each dance is called up in the hospital work. How it’s summoned somehow by the...