Shake shake shake...shake your bewdy! NZ

[Maggie Nell]

With these gestures, we somehow defy death

The ‘Circle of Life’ project began with an open invitation for people affected by cancer to meet weekly over a ten week period, creating original dance together. The project, which also involved collaborations with artists and University of Otago Arts Fellows, culminated in a public performance at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The dancers included people with various types of cancer at various stages of treatment as well as others without cancer themselves but who were strongly associated with someone going through treatment.

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[crc2007]

Thanks for this interesting article, Maggie. The programme sounds very successful. I used to live in NZ. Do you?
crc2007

[Utwo]

Colon cancer haka?

[Maggie Nell]

crc2007 - I had a place alongside the Waikato when I lived in Hamilton yonks ago. Currently,
living in Melbourne between the debil debil and the deep blah bayside.

utwo - a haka for colon cancer could work. Co-lo-stomy! Co-lo-stomy! Ka ora! Ka ora! does
replace ka mate ka mate quite nicely. But I think gentler dance forms, such as
hula or beledi, would be less likely to scare the interns fresh out of doctor school.

[crc2007]

Utwo and Maggie,
great ideas!

Maggie I currently have a daughter living by the Waikato (in Hamilton).

crc2007

[kiwiinoz]

OT but I lived in Hamilton up until Form 4, when my family moved from the Waikato to Auckland.
Loved Hamilton, and loved the cold, the frosts etc, but glad I did my chemo in Sydney where it was nowhere near as cold as I did it during winter