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Here's a fun moment from The Kennedys' End of Year livestream special. This song is "This Year's Gonna Be Our Year" written by Eytan Mirsky (great song, Eytan!)... and was requested by Carl Cafarelli. If you dig it (how could you not?) you can buy Eytan's album, "Year of the Mouse" either as a CD or mp3s on the usual outlets. Happy New Year, everyone, and good riddance to 2020, (which wasn't good at all.) See more

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The PROPinquity Dance Jam mini-documentary created by filmmaker Olya Gotlka. CAPTIONS: Turn on English captions from settings in the lower right corner ... IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The setting is a park during the late summer. The sun is shining and green grass and trees surround the scene. A dancer lies on a large blue air barrel reaching her arms out. A pair of hands balancing an 8-foot dowel. Dancers with six feet of elastics looped around trees. They are twirling and reaching as they lean out into the elastic bands. We see Kathleen Rea (a woman in her 50s with short blond hair) wearing a flowered patterned mask. She takes her mask off. We see a cellist playing. Kathleen sprays disinfectant on a large red gymnastic barrel. The sun rays are streaming through the mist of disinfectant that is created. Kathleen sitting reading the land acknowledgment from a paper in her hands. Kathleen untangling a pink rope. The "prop- room" (a blue tarp with gymnastic air barrels and air cannons on it) is behind her Kathleen using a hand pump to pump up an air barrel. Close-up of hand disinfectant. Showing props in the prop-room (elastic loops, barrel,s dowels, balls of different sizes, tetherballs, rollers, rockers). Dancers connecting together elastic loops. Two dancers "touch" through an 8-foot wooden dowel. Kathleen sitting on the grass with 15 people in a large physical distance circle. Kathleen going through screening questions and people using thumbs up or down to answer. Kathleen demonstrates prop disinfection protocol. We see a dancer spaying her feet and hands. Two dancers twirling dowels. 7 dancers all with elastic loops attached around trees. A man twirling a tetherball around his head. The dancers continue to play various props. At one point three tetherballs get attached together in the center. The dancer pulls away and form a star-shape. Two dancers with a 12-foot elastic loop around their waist laughing as one does a cartwheel. Someone returning a wooden dowel to the "prop-room". She spraying is down. Kathleen's face. There is a glow in her eyes which then turns into a satisfied smile. WHAT DOES "PROPINQUITY" MEAN? Propinquity" refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people and how this closeness organizes people and their bodies. "Propinquity Theory" states that individuals affiliate with one another because of spatial or geographical proximity. DESCRIPTION The PROPinquity Dance Jam, produced by REAson d'etre dance productions (RDDP) uses props as a tool to encourage kinesthetic discovery and joy of play within yourself and others. It also is a great work-out that can build strength and coordination. RDDP provides eight-foot dowels and elastic bands, rollers, and balls of all sizes including tether balls and gymnastic cannons for people to use in solo practice of in duet or trios. This is all done in an outdoor setting with a protocol for disinfecting props while maintaining a physical distance of 6 feet from each other (as per current government COVID-19 prevention recommendations).

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