August 16, 2026

There is tissue in sinew connecting a body in pain with a body coming out of it. There is an animal, the desert and an invitation to enter the wild lands within - yours, mine, ours. There are odes to moments without shame or blame. Also, dance, song, shayari-poetry and me!

Sinew, a 30 minute online performance is on Tuesday, August 18 at 11:11 am US mountain time (check your time here).

Dear friends, you are invited!

​Here’s the YouTube live stream link. All you gotta do is click and watch :-)

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I'll also share an ode-dance-song to Aziz Balouch, a South Asian musician who went from India to Spain in the 1950s and sang flamenco his own way. He released only four tracks on one album "Sufi Hispano Pakistani." Read his amazing story here. I’m so mad about his music that I made a video afuera dancing to it - more on that soon.

There are days where the bigness of the world is reduced to just one flick in a fiber of muscle that moves where it gotta move to love who it gotta love. That’s where I am right now, rehearsing, where I’ll be Tuesday too, where I hope to keep living from….a place of sense and also non-sense.

That being said, this week I also made massive to do lists with every single thing I want and need to do and just started laughing at the piles of paper.

This too is sinew space! seeing the distance between big dreams and what is needed to simplify the journey - to do and undo! And this journey is what I am especially looking forward to exploring in the WILD LANDS creativity circle in September. more here.​

but first - now - the tiniest to do is the smallest next step.

​Sinew on Tuesday. only that. Come with your tea or coffee, first or second breakfast, wine or tapas.

(I will not say samosa out loud because then I will have to go and get one, right this minute!)

(ps: a recording will be available at the same link for a day after the performance. Feel free to email me afterwards with your impressions,)

here’s to to you, to us, to sense and non sense and the chaos of of piles of paper showing you the light.

in solidarity


Shebana

Still from Listening to Aziz, a video. Camera/photo by Genevieve Humenay.

Cover of Aziz Balouch's album, re-release by Death is Not the End (2020)​

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