The Tea Dancers / Ballet de la Compasión

We realized that community means the poor, the rich, the old, the young, the teen, the bad one, the good one; the Muslim, the Jew, the Christian...

the suffering, the happy, the pretty, the ugly, the slow, the fast. and the only word that can build bridges between the opposites is: tolerance

Asalam-o-Alaikum (Peace be with you)

I am excited to tell you all that i only have a collection of good news, and zero bad news.

1) After many years of looking for a way to fuse dance and humanitarianism by bringing performance art to the untouched by the art and others that may not have been exposed to youth culture, creating a bridge between worlds. Finally this past June, me and Mayra decided to formalize an organization/dance-company and to extend the invitation to more artists to collaborate with us thank you Paul Cabezas, Kim Adams, John conkle, Maria de la Rosa, Reed Rickert, Sarah Stolar and Jennifer Alvarado for all your enthusiasm and energy.

We also want to thank Marina Salonga, Tegan Shawb, Melanie Shriber and Jyllian Cortez for your support in our beginning.

2) We are named  The Tea Dancers / Ballet de la Compasión

this is our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNuGQaJ33oA&feature=player_embedded

this is our website: http://www.theteadancers.org/

and guess what?: 

we are going to have a VERY BEAUTIFUL party Fundraiser

this coming Saturday October the 9th @ 7th Heaven studio in Berkeley, 

thanks to the support of great artists like Lucia Iman, Evan Fraser, La Clandestina,

Eugene Steel, Marielle Bolland, Annie Mctrue, and again Paul, Kim, John, Maria, Reed, Sarah, Jen, 

and all the bunch of sweet friends that will help us that night to run an Aerial dance show, 

a Fire-COALS dance show, a cumbia night and tons of TEA.

We need to buy equipment to improve our performances. Come to our party, it is an ALL age party and

Thanks for your help!

3) I can’t tell you how happy we feel to give you the good news that SAMOVAR Tea Lounge accepted to be our sponsor.

We feel so aligned with their philosophy and so honored to start a relationship with such sensitive and wonderful people,they go beyond business, they also are a movement about Slow-down, practice tea...drink peace. 

(turn off ya cellphone for 5min!)

:)

Check their site:  http://samovarlife.com/   

(gracias Jesse, gracias Erick)

4) If you ask me why are we so happy, or why we like to do this so passionately,

let me tell you that when we went to the senior centers...I...(im so excited to write this)

i just can say that while I was dancing with all my might, 

we started to listen to all the grandpas and grandmas YELLING like crazy!

they were really YELLING, and only one thought crossed my mind:

“I hope none of the grandpas suffer a heart-attack!.  we... just... want... to make them..... HAPPY”.

Thanks to the power of all the Buddhas nobody died.

;)

it is FANTASTIKO to bring art to those people who never had an IDEA  

or never expected to watch something like fire dance... 

most of the time all they have is loneliness and sickness. 

I don’t feel artist doing this, I feel human.

5) And finally, the Central Asia Institute Annual Gala was a success, please read my Blog.

Mr. Greg Mortenson and all the volunteers and the Pakistani ice cream Fallodeh! Fallodeh!!

I love Fallodeh, holly crabs, everything was epic! I will continue to promote Mr. Greg's mission.

Thank YOU and come to our Tea dancers party..

with all my love

natta

ppss.. dear mom could you please leave a comment in our website with your thoughts about our work, it means a lot for us to receive feedback.

I know you're not used to do it, but try it, maybe more people will feel inspired and do the same.

gracias 

:)

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Everything I write is true.

Sometimes we have to learn to say things in a way that .... things won’t sound unpleasant or scary when, in fact, they are pretty bad looking things.  It is hard to write words like old, unwanted, marginalized, impeded, abused...the sick, the suffering, the poor ...it’s better to call them not very lucky, underprivileged. It is not easy when writing a grant or a fiscal sponsorships application or even to you!, and tell you that we want to dance for the “not very lucky”.

In Fact we want to dance for EVERYBODY, but we are attracted to bring art to the untouched by the art, especially to those who are living not very nice moments in life. We hope that our art inspires them and releases them, at least 10 min, from their bad dreams.

I'm not the super dancer, I don't want to be that, and i'm not looking for money or fame,

i'm just a simple woman, and i know there are a lot of things i need to learn,

but i know life is ridiculously short and when I died I want to be wealthy with peace and

leave an inheritance of happiness behind me.

Help us to buy the equipment so we can dance for our mission.

Thank you!