Gratitude & Compassion

A collaboration with David Koteen, this book grew out of an email relationship between two strangers, initiated by my email of gratitude to David for conceiving and co-writing  Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas, a book that unfolds on many levels. When Nancy, my dear friend, died, this book kept her voice alive. Discovering parallel epiphanies of our early 70s wanderlust through Europe and Asia, and shared love of the dance, of poetry, of living in the forest and of Nancy. Available on books.by

I have two Substacks. One is called "Moments of Connection," referring to the contribution we each make to the building of a new era on Earth, by sharing with each other our vision and belief that it is possible. The link is christinasvane.substack.com

The second is called "Travelling with Bob Dylan and Other Unsolved Mysteries." I share my experiences with Dylan when I was with him on the Scandinavian leg of his 1987 "Temples in Flames" tour, as well as meetings in 1989 and 1992.  The unsolved mysteries were many, but the recurring question was why it felt like we were old old friends. This opens the underlying topic of time: linear time is a construct, leading us to think that the past is over and cannot be re-entered. But in truth, time is spherical, and past, present and future co-exist simultaneously. We are, then, free to travel between them, like birds in the sky.  (Travelling is spelled in the UK manner, because I live in Europe.)  The link is travellingwithBobDylan.substack.com

A collection of poems arising out of the experience of moving, or being moved by watching another's dance. With exquisitely translated versions in French by Christine Renaudin, also a dancer.  Not available commercially.  Contact me for a copy. 

Excerpts from the last forty years of conversing with an inner voice. 

Inspired by the global realization, "We can't go back to normal; normal wasn't working" arising from the COVID crisis, I researched young inventors around the world who had come up with earth-shaking and earth-saving new ideas, and fantasized a way that other such inventions could actually be put to use in saving the planet from the raging degradation of quality of life for the environment and humanity. Peace Nobelist Wangari Maathai is the inspiring force behind the protagonist, a woman from the matriarchal Bissagos Islands of Guinea Bissau. It is an opportunity for audience and performers to imagine together and generate the energy field of how it will feel to shift from harming to healing our planet and ourselves. In process....stay tuned!