Did you miss IOCB’s performances of Dance Anyway?  Here is a great opportunity to see Casey Thorne perform an excerpt from Dance Anyway at College of Marin’s Spring Dance Concert.  We hope to see you there!

We are humbled by the support of our Angel donors and everyone who came to see Dance Anyway yesterday. Stay tuned for information on IOCB’s next project : )

Check out Vicki Larson’s beautiful article on Inside Out Contemporary Ballet in the Marin Independent Journal.  We love our community!

We have come to be danced
Not the pretty dance
Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
But the claw our way back into the belly
Of the sacred, sensual animal dance
The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance
The holding the precious moment in the palms
Of our hands and feet dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance
But the wring the sadness from our skin dance
The blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
The slap the apology from our posture dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the monkey see, monkey do dance
One two dance like you
One two three, dance like me dance
but the grave robber, tomb stalker
Tearing scabs and scars open dance
The rub the rhythm raw against our soul dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the nice, invisible, self-conscious shuffle
But the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
Shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance
The strip us from our casings, return our wings
Sharpen our claws and tongues dance
The shed dead cells and slip into
The luminous skin of love dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance
But the meeting of the trinity, the body breath and beat dance
The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance
The mother may I?
Yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance
The olly olly oxen free free free dance
The everyone can come to our heaven dance.

We have come to be danced
Where the kingdom’s collide
In the cathedral of flesh
To burn back into the light
To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
To root in skin sanctuary

We have come to be danced

-Jewel Mathieson

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 Big thanks to everyone who came out to support IOCB on super bowl Sunday!  We <3 you all!  See you at the performance Feb 24

We are jumping with joy in anticipation of our FUN-Raiser event this Sunday!  Hope to see you there!