Becoming an artist is not the hard part. The hard part is doing the art, over and over. The hard part is bearing your own missed expectations about what your art should look like. The hard part is doing your work especially when the world tries to fill up your time...
Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) is a company of visual, literary and performing artists who create transformation through the arts based in the Life Force Arts Method (LFAM), a modern version of universal wisdom teachings that value true self and creative...
Joan: Do you want to say something about how we decided to create Rainbow Messengers? I remember I said, “Gee, could you do one of the performances for Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) for the Fall Equinox?” To give some background: LFAE has been producing one of...
[Laura Tempest Zakroff will be a leading a healing arts ritual at Life Force Arts Center entitled Stirring the Cauldron: A Ritual Exploration of Movement. The ritual will take place Tuesday, July 25, 2017 from 7-10 pm.] We tend to associate movement with physical...
Amy Christensen leads "Come Play With Me! Ritual Art & Creative Drama Meet The Child Spirit" Wednesday June 1, 2016 at Life Force Arts Center. What is it exactly, that comes to mind with the use of the word “ritual?” Is a ritual a daily habit? Are the words...
On December 5, 2015, Life Force Arts Center presents the premiere of an Art Ritual and Book Launch based on Britt Posmer's book of poetry The Angel and The Heretic (Saint Julian Press, July 2015). In the following article, Britt and the other performers reflect on...
The gorgeous young man on my right could tap dance a dreadlocked symphony in his sleep. The tattooed guy to my left sang opera underneath his breath. My parents taught me to give silent compliments to everyone including myself, so luckily I knew no jealousy. But...
What if you could imagine that your life is a dream? What if you could imagine that just as you can wake yourself up from a dream you are having at night, you could wake yourself up and rewrite your life’s dream? Sometimes when I am having a disturbing dream I wake...
Asking me, why I do art?, is like asking me, why do I breathe? It’s like asking me, why does the sun rise, every day, consistently? It’s like asking me, why does blood run through my veins? I create art because art is who I be. I create art because just like the...
by Matthew Ellenwood The theatrical arts have their origins in humanity’s urge to communicate myth, ritual, and song through the medium of storytelling. All ancient cultures gave praise to their spirits and gods, and celebrated the “sacred times” with stories and...
