Dance, Education, Choreography, and Cooking
Listen to the podcast with the powerful Lydia Smith–Lenardson, where she discusses the inspiration for her choreography. Her bout with cancer left her paralyzed from the waist down. If that was not challenging enough, she now faces obstacles navigating the health care system and getting support to help her with daily chores.
Conversations for stories of practice on movement, mindfulness, the creative process, and social justice happen around creating meals. As I slice, chop, and prepare a meal, thoughts for the next podcast and blog sometimes come while spicing and marinating dishes. As an educator and choreographer, the creative process for me begins to stir in the kitchen. Welcome to the podcast "What Stirs" I am your host, Dr. Desiree Cremer, the Cooking Choreographer.
Marianne Cooper grew up in Sweden; she recalls sitting around the fire with every family member doing something with their hands. Her mother was knitting, her dad creating or inventing something. And she and her sisters are doing art. Exposed to art from a young age, Cooper shares that growing up in Sweden was like “growing up in a Waldorf school, with lots of arts and crafts.”
Cooking Choreographer 