The Dream Team welcomes Heloise Gold to share her dream from the '80s that seeded her ongoing performance series - Bird Dream Dances and Songs. We talked creativity, deep listening, the quantum dreamer and the biggun dream. Bonus visits and dream actions with Lamby, Lamby's grandchild and Hodge!
Dreaming and the Deep Listening BodyHeloise Gold is a performing artist, dancer, choreographer and T’ai Chi/Qi Gong instructor. She was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2015, and is known as one of Austin's dance/performance art pioneers, creating work in Austin since the 1980’s. She is recognized for her extensive and continuous career as a performer and creator. She highlights experimentation and collaboration in her pieces and infuses her deep sense of humanity, humor and vision into everything she creates.
Her performance career traverses numerous paths beginning with early childhood appearances in NYC with the Bolshoi Ballet, to performing in Robert Wilson’s legendary opera The Life And Times Of Joseph Stalin to participating in many experimental happenings in NYC in the late 1970’s; to dancing/touring with the Deborah Hay Dance Company 1980-1986. Additionally she is the co-founder of Art From The Streets; a highly regarded program for artists who are unhoused. She conducts annual T'ai Chi retreats in New Mexico; and has co-facilitated Deep Listening® Retreats with Pauline Oliveros and IONE over a span of 25+ years, traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has developed the curriculum for the Deeply Listening Body practices as part of the Deep Listening® certification program.
She continues to collaborate, perform and teach with many artistic visionaries and colleagues. Her love of collaboration, experimentation, improvisation, and comedy, always play a big part in her works.
website: heloisegold.com
