Bella Dancer
ENTERING THE ARENA - Gladiators Hijack My Life
I sincerely hope it's obvious that, in these posts about gladiators and the Roman arena, we're going to be talking about violence,...
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Memoir Table of Contents
Welcome Aboard!
--"Izzy, how did you start dancing?"
--"What got you into martial arts?"
--"What kind of dancer/martial artist/writer are you?
--"How do you deal with brain damage, bodily injury and
C-PTSD, yet still dance, write, train, live the way you do?"
--"How do you still find joy and beauty amidst pain and loss?"
--"Wow, you should write your memoirs!"
This Is My Story
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 20, 2021
- 16 min
TOMORROW...MAYBE - My Obsessions with Annie, Acting, Singing & Dance
Continued from: --CAT SCRATCH FEVER - My Oldest Obsession ...you have noooooo idea how much I confine this kitty-cat obsession to the...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 18, 2021
- 11 min
CAT-SCRATCH FEVER - My Oldest Obsession
I may have mentioned that I can be obsessive. Occasionally? A little. Ahem. It all started with kitty-cats. As a little girl, I always...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 12, 2021
- 5 min
FROLICKING FOXES - Follow Your Bliss
RedFox 1 & 2 with GoldiFox It's trash day. Sometimes I take it out in the middle of the day. Sometimes at night. Sometimes in the morning...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 3, 2021
- 23 min
TBI SURVIVAL FOR MILD-TO-MODERATE LONG-HAULERS - Lessons From 20 Years of Tripe
As y’all know, I don’t often do the list thing, and I certainly don't do the short, snappy ten-point list. If this post is too long and...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
STRUGGLE - Watching Nature Persevere
A few weeks after my big car wreck, my dad sent this to me. It became one of the main metaphors of my recovery from severe whiplash, TBI...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 17, 2021
- 10 min
FINDING FAITH - In a Box of Old, Important Things
Continued from: DRAMA QUEEN - That Time I Bombed My Theater Major DYE JOB - How a Coin & Fringe Bra Literally Saved My Life BABY BELLY...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 11, 2021
- 18 min
DRAMA-QUEEN - How I Bombed As a Theater Major, Yet Acquired a Key to Great Acting
“And what do you want to be when you grow up?” Adults love asking kids that question. I find myself parroting it to children I meet. Some...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 6, 2021
- 8 min
LETTING THE RIVER FLOW - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance 3
Continued from Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance: Part 1 - AN EXPRESSION...A SPEAKING OUT Part 2 - SECRETS THAT LIE HIDDEN ...This blog...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 6, 2021
- 10 min
SECRETS THAT LIE HIDDEN - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance 2
Continued from: AN EXPRESSION...A SPEAKING OUT - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance ...Expressionism was part of the broad Modernist...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 26, 2021
- 8 min
AN EXPRESSION...A SPEAKING OUT - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance
"A dancer must do two things always: play and dream." ~Mary Wigman When I awoke this morning, I realized why I can't yet tell you about...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 24, 2021
- 14 min
GOTTA WHIP IT OUT - How I Practice Mindfulness With My Phone Camera
My mom and I joke all the time on our nature walks - "Oooh, gotta whip it out!" We're referring to our phone cameras, of course. What did...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 13, 2021
- 8 min
AFFIRMATIONS - From Acceptance to the Zero Point Potential of Creation
Image by Dennis Nejtek I really wanted to dance tonight, but my body is not ready. It's too busy healing a new tooth implant and...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 10, 2021
- 2 min
I AM ANTI-NEO - A Poem About Falling
What the fuck am I doing? I have no clue anymore I especially don't know why I pace this ledge And its crumbling edge That flirts with...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 7, 2021
- 7 min
WHY I OBLITERATED MY WEBSITE - Again.
Okay, I lied. I told you we'd get back to Villains and we will. But I finally got around to updating my Ko-fi Page about all the latest...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 7, 2021
- 14 min
YOUR RESTAURANT IS STALKING YOU - So Are Your Costumes
We interrupt this program with a word (or twelve-hundred) from our sponsor, Vomitrix Maxima. We are crude today. We are crass and...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 6, 2021
- 12 min
SALOME 2 - Villains & Sidechicks Part 4
CONTINUED FROM: SHE-ROS, VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS - The Characters That Made Me SALOME 1 - Strippers & Satins & Silks, Oh My! ...When I...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 5, 2021
- 9 min
SALOME 1 - Strippers & Satins & Silks, Oh My!
CONTINUED FROM: SHE-ROS, VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS - The Characters That Made Me Image by Beth Shell If you've followed my adventures in the...
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Bella Dancer
- May 21, 2021
- 14 min
PASSION *IS* PRAYER - Villains & Sidechicks 3: Veronica Franco, Ishmael, and the Roots of Eve-il
CONTINUED FROM SHE-ROS, VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS: SHE-ROS & VILLAINS - The Characters That Made Me VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS 1: Kitty-Cats,...
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Bella Dancer
- May 15, 2021
- 12 min
MATA HARI - Villains & Sidechicks Pt. 2
CONTINUED FROM: SHE-ROS & VILLAINS - The Characters That Made Me VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS 1: Kitty-Cats, Dommes & Dinner ...countless other...
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