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Letter from the Florence Nightingale Cast
Dear Dianna, We give you applause You helped with our cause Through rain and through sun You’re number one When the day finally came We had no shame To state we are going Surely unknowing But whether we make it or not We have not forgot That through rain and through sun You’re number one Thank you Sincerely, Nyssa Sage Jack
Letter from the Currie Group
March 2, 2015 Dear Dianna, Gabby and I valued your support in our performance and appreciated the way you helped us show emotion in our acting. All of your input and advice proved useful at the windward district fair, and I am pleased to say that our Marie Curie performance has advanced to the state level competition. You played no small part in getting us there. We would like to thank you first of all for showing us when to be emotional. I think the judges really liked how emotional we were when saying our lines. I remember when we talked about the deaths in our performance I saw members of the audience close their eyes, and some of them look down, it amazed me to see that I could move an audience and make them feel how I felt. I am really glad that you taught us how to provoke emotion in our audience. I am also grateful that you showed the different parts of the stage and how incorporating movement in our performance keeps the audience listening. When we went through our script, I really liked how you made it so we had time to prepare for each scene and it made it easier for us to keep in time with saying our lines. All of your input made our performance more clear and organized which helped us to make the audience understand what we were saying. Thank you so much for everything you helped us with! We definitely wouldn’t be going to the State fair if it wasn’t for you. This experience was amazing and I’m so glad you could help us. I can’t wait to see you again. Hopefully we’ll do well at State and make you proud. Thank you so much. Sincerly, Alex & Gabby, Marie Curie Group
What a fantastic experience Performance Coaching these 5 talented young actors in their self-written 10min acts about Madame Currie - The Mother of Modern Physics and Florence Nightingale - The Lady with the Lamp. They impressed me to tears watching their rehearsal. I found out that after competing this last Sat, both plays made it to State level competitions in Washington! I'm so proud of you guys! I believe we all have the ability to move people and these youngsters have harnessed that power to make a difference!! Mahalo future creative leaders!
I See You! Because...I'm Ready to Be Seen! I'm ready to... Be a connector for generations Be a representation of possibilities Be a channel of spirit Be a conductor of play Be a lover of life Be a teacher of expression Be a balance of the whole Be an innocent student Be a humble human Be an enthusiastic leader Be a divine dancer Be Me. And so it is...
Stunning capture of play and love! A valentines dream come true.
The Angels spread their wings to flock Freedom Unleashed Now #FUN through the streets of Waikiki this week on the #LifeofPlay. You have a family you're born into and you have a Soul Family your soul is rebirthed into. The awakening is here and I'm having babies left right and centre. I'm a #cosmicwhore, what can I say. This is the feeling of #Abundance #Love and #Happiness.
Day #2: Inner Projection, Outer Expression Today I decided to draw out my meditation. I took out a blank piece of paper and started out with what I wanted to center my Truth around, in my case Hawaii. I allowed any words and images come to me, asking myself as many time during the process, "Does that feel right? Does it go here?" These images appeared. I wrote in script to keep the flow of the delivery, but then I got the message to trace over the words I've done. Originally, to make them jump out of the picture, but then that action actually taught me to slow down and take care in how I layered the word on top of the other. It was like I was carving the word into my memory. As I connected to the world, I started to feel the meaning of the word. When we put pen to paper, or even foot on stage or voice to mic, it becomes the bridge between the inner-desire to the outer-expressed worlds. We don't use the artform of doodling, drawing, painting or journaling enough as a pathway to our Souls, our Light, and our Truth. We don't know that we have been gifted the freedom of choice, and the freedom to change it. Stop believing that you're not special, you're not artistic, you're an unlucky person. It was never true to begin with. 1. Draw a collage of what you want to express as your inner self! 2. Take a picture and send it to me. The more people vibrate on your images, your vision gets brighter! Until the Aloha dear sprits of Light!!!
On the #LifeofPlay: Ok, just woke up to the sun in a brand new city...Honolulu. Day #1 and I'm setting intentions...well, how about brush your teeth and comb your hair Dianna!? Well, fear me not, I don't really care. This island is about LOVE...unconditional love. The judgement I hold on myself is the only thing holding me back from getting to know me through you. So, here, I forgive myself. INTENTIONS for Today: Self-Love and Internal Listening, feeling into the internal musical rhythms of my heart. SYMBOLS: 1 Drop - Calm amid Chaos - being the center of your Universe, the calm in the center chaos of modern-day existence.
Love Currency
My decision to move toward my dreams looked like giving up my pretty posh, artist live work space in the middle of Gastown, Vancouver, BC, selling everything and packing everything I own in a 5x8ft storage closet has taken its course and I am in full flow.
My Universe has told me, if you trust, you will be caught. If you let go, you will fly. If you do it because you love it, you will be loved back.
I officially left Sept 26, 2014 from this beautiful comfort zone and took my life on. I packed 2 of my solo shows into my van and not to forget my partner and my new furry pup and JUMPED ALL IN.
Since then, my life has moved into a new way of giving and receiving. Being FREE to be where I may, meaning, to wherever my Soul tells me I should be, I shall listen, I shall follow, I shall be...on Purpose, with Love.
It's been only 2 weeks and so much has happened.
After my show in a small town of Meadow Lake, SK, a Education Assistant at one of the schools I was performing at invited me to have dinner at her place. This turned into 2 nights and 3 beautiful days with this new Filipino immigrant family who had loved and nurtured us with delicious home cooking. In turn, we were able to witness them moving into their first new home in Canada, and not to mention life-time-fans for life.
Driving to Edmonton from Saskatchewan to lead 45 little ones under the age of 5 helped me fortify my knowing that I AM the Pied Piper from little wee ones. I have a future in this. Maybe. I celebrated my nephew's 1st birthday and introduced my little pup and my new life to my parents who surprisingly were so supportive of my decision.
I drove to Calgary to perform for a friend's school. A past misunderstanding was healed because of this show and our impact at her school. We hugged it out and our friendship was reunited.
I spent 4 days with a friend who's a chef and a partner who's a writer/music composer. This was 4 consecutive days of endless laughter, weird costumes, and epic phrases that will only be for our ears only.
I'm ending this post sitting in my Godsister's house for Thanksgiving. Back in BC with a home to feel loved and cared for, celebrating with her 4 awesome kids who love me so much!
Love is all your need.
The Lanikai Lunar Eclipse
As I sat on Lanikai Beach in Hawaii this last Lunar Eclipse I spoke to all my Goddesses peering towards this Celestial Grand Cross that aligned itself in our night sky. These are the worlds the moon shared with me during this reflection of Birth-Life-Death-Rebirth.
My Prayer to the Goddesses
Feel the Greatness under the earth The power behind the clouds And the frequency in the sky Breathe in your purpose And run your ground Be an example of what Your Greatness must be like Live out your Soul's Purpose Share in the Oneness of All The interconnectedness between the differences One Soul
Your human form cannot even contain it all Therefore we must transcend Become transparent Sit between the lines The space between contraction and expansion This place where we sit in the suspension of PLAY
P for Passion L for Love A for Art Y for Youthfullness
Dance with the stars and the galaxies galore Tap into the sap Of earth's delicacies Feel the bliss in your heart Peak through the shadows of darkness Be but an ant on a man's foot, so small and yet so strong Fully conscious and aware of your purpose on this earth No matter what level of perception you may see
Defy the unbelievers And make believe the unseen Stir in the night Until you come to rest Only to start again
Cycle through life Like the rhythms of the ocean
Be like the moon Seen as a pure reflection of the Sun Don't force the circumstance Just wait for the light to come
Mahalo, Mahalo, Mahalo
Part II of 2013 Moments here. The moments that touch my heart, propel me forward and and give me purpose.
Check out Part III to end off my 2013 with a blast!!!
Here are some highlights of my 2013. Although there were so many more memories I could have put up here, these are the ones that have been building blocks to my life of Passion, Love, Art, and Youthfulness - P.L.A.Y.
Enjoy Part II that will lead us into 2014…
JUNE 21 - 24 - MADSKILLZ
BEEN AROUND THE WORLD, AROUND MY MIND, AROUND MY HEART
This last Thursday, June 20 to June 24, I spent 4 glorious day submersing myself into a culture I seem to have dipped my toes into particularly for the gain of picking up tricks so I can leave and do my own thing professionally with it. For years, I felt separate from groups. Funny enough, maybe a little to a lot introverted. I stuck to a few handful of tight friends, and appeared socially with other groups to only 'stop by' or 'guest'.
There are some benefits from such an approach, nobody bothers you, you get just what you need, you can disappear without others knowing you left, or you can also leave and there would be a big farewell as people would hope and wonder when the next time you will return. The latter was the most fun because I could create a sense of celebrity lifestyle out of this technique.
The other week, I started reading a book called "Mindset - The New Psychology of Success". It spoke about 2 different mindsets - The Fixed Mindset and The Growth Mindset. For years, I seriously thought I had a Growth Mindset, as I ventured off to explore myself, however, after reading this book, I realized how much I have been trained to have a Fixed Mindset.
"The Fixed Mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving." - Carol S. Dweck, Mindset-The New Psychology of Success.
I never understood why PRACTICE was so difficult in bigger group settings for me. It was not until I read this that I understood I had been practicing/living with a FIXED MINDSET. I'm about to expose myself here… Soooo, I would go home, practice a trick and then go to Juggle Jam on Wednesday nights and would train the same trick. Reflecting on my thoughts, I would socialize more on other topics versus getting more tricks from other people. I felt that if I figured it out myself, I can avoid scrutiny, judgement, or even feedback. Ooooohhhh Feedback. It's a weird thing. As much as I've been part of personal growth for so long, I seriously had to work on how to receive feedback. I would literally cringe inside. I guess you can say I could feel like there was something wrong with me.
Someone with a fixed mindset struggles with right and wrong, success or failure. It has taken a couple of years to retrain my brain to start accepting feedback, letting it sink, and letting it affect me to improve me instead of believing there was something wrong with me. It started when I was often compared to my older brother's high achievements, and for years, let's say decades, I would fixate on the day I will be as SMART as him or as TALENTED as him, when in fact, I always was. I created 'Not Good Enough' programs and 'Am I Better than Him/Her?' voices in my head to justify me feeling good in situations.
This type of mindset is a sly and tricky one to notice. You can flip from one to another and fool yourself that you are in a growth mindset when you're not….like me. Externally, you can say, I am a high achiever, very successful, talented and gots it all together. Internally, these are the most toughest issues I've dealt with my entire life. I realized my achievements have been based out of PROVING to others that I am a high achiever, successful and talented. I need to push against something in order for me to feel good about myself, hence being motivated externally instead of my own internal push to want to get better, smarter, more successful.
After attending 4 days with the Madskillz family, I have been full grounded in HOW TO USE MY GROWTH MINDSET cap from now on. Alley 'Oops (First Picture) celebrates with a cheer of 'AGAIN, ONLY BETTER' after every drop, mistake or fall. She is the Queen Bee of Growth. She inspires me to say YES to every opportunity and to keep on going. I could feel the open minds in a stadium of rhythmically flying objects. Vibrating bodies would move from workshop to workshop absorbing knowledge to add to their bag of tricks. It was so beautiful.
Lastly, there were 3 main evening shows: Artist Emerge, Renegade Show, Play Sessions Prop Dance Battle, and The Gala. Performance concludes the process of someone with a Growth Mindset. Working towards performing your tricks flawlessly is the highest reward for someone with a Growth Mindset, putting the challenge of coaching, training, exposure and self-evaluation. This is a true measure of success for yourself, when you know you've done a good job because you've worked for it…not because people said so.
I have learned so much experiencing my thoughts throughout a new family I've submerged myself into. I've realized that my natural skill of performance fools people to believe that I train numerous hours and hours to get where I am. Now don't go saying, "God you make me sick." Don't get me wrong, I still train, work on my dancing and juggling; just maybe not so hard. It definitely is a skill to have to move audiences emotionally, however for my own internal gauge of growth, it's pretty low on the scale for me. However, now, because of my new Growth Mindset…I feel that joy starting to build, loving the challenge to learn more for the sake of getting better for myself…and not what others will say when I show it to them. I love that I can learn openly from others now, because I know I have the capacity to add more knowledge in my skill…not a fixed container of just what I think it should look like.
Thank you to ALL the new friends who inspired me at MADSKILLZ 2013. Yuki, Chris, Alley, Graham, Christa, thank you for constantly loving me and so graciously assimilating me into the family. To all those international inspiration like Poki (Clown from Belingham), Richard Hartnell (Contact Juggler from Oakland), Noel Yee (Fire Spinner with Vulcan Tech Gospel in SF), Gail (Hooper from North Ireland), Morgan (Multi-Talented Prop Manipulater from Portland), Tynan (Uni-cyclist from Vancouver) Toby (Juggler, Auckland New Zealand), Olivier (CJ and Juggler from France), Lucille (Hooper from France) and Nico (Fire Spinner from Italy) and so many more. It has been an absolute pleasure to GROW with you all. See you all NEXT YEAR MADSKILLZ 2014.
This is me and a bunch of little boys at a private all boys school called St. George’s. No matter what status, what age, what gender, what location, we all can make things real.
LIFE LESSON #3
TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE.
In Mime, I learned that even when things are not there, you as the artist have to believe it so much that the audience believes it too. It goes the same in life. How much of our life do we say we want to do something and never do it because we don’t even believe it in ourselves.
Belief is the catalyst to action. Belief is the tool that brings the invisible into reality, ideas into action, feelings into expression. I today sometimes say, “I can’t believe I did that”. Fact is, without belief, it wouldn’t have ever happened in the first place. Without me as a mime on stage demonstrating the shape of an apple and eating it, my audience would never know what I am doing…”Hello, I’m eating an apple”. I make it real. I make it exist. I see it first. I make it believable. If I am careless about what I am doing, my audience will be just as confused, and so will the Universe. Being clear and believing in my actions makes things become what I want it to look and feel like. It’s that simple.
We are the creators of how we want it to look like, we just have to believe that we are and decide on how it’s suppose to look like.
Was there a time in your life where you saw it come to life in your mind’s eye first and then you literally walked right into it? Tell me about it.
‘Till next post! Rock it out!
I've been taking this online course to start deepening my understanding of myself as a business. I never knew it could be hard. Little did I know, I've done a lot of leg work.
LIFE LESSON #2
POWER OF DECIDING: The next thing I realized was a key tool in my belt that I have sharpened over the years is the Power of Deciding. I remembered planning my life in 6 month intervals, making sure I would pack every single possible activity, experience, creative hobby into that time frame. Little did I know that in accumulation of half year intervals, I had achieved everything I had set myself out to accomplish. The power of deciding sets the wheels of the universe turning for me. I remember being told to 'Place an order to the Universe'. So I did. I thought it was a big hoax. You mean, I can ask for the perfect partner, an awesome creative studio and endless travel? Well, once I took it seriously, and had a clear idea of what I wanted, I was able to say YES! to that and Hell NO! to that. Ok, I may have looked like a selfish bitch or some wild and crazy artist, I've been told, but if it wasn't in my 6th month plan, it wasn't on my radar. I even struggled when people asked me what my 5 year or 10 year goal was because I was so focused on exactly these 6 month achievements, dreaming in future distracted me. No right, wrong, good or bad, everything at the end of the day had manifested as experiences that I walked right into the picture I had in my mind. The power of deciding and taking the time to paint the exact picture of what you want it to look like and feel like will unfailingly create the life you want to live. There's no fail. All you have to do is decide and move towards it.
"The beauty of teaching is seeing all your experienced play out in front of you. You see what you know, but you also discover new things you don't. I am so happy to be able to be sharing these workshops with everyone!" - Dianna David
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March 12, 2013
Today I decided to start speaking my truth. So, as manifestation has it, a (not so surprising) email surprised me in FB inbox. It was my niece who is a young adult now had insisted I continue my blog because she always found them inspiring. It was a nudge from the Universe. And so this is so...
I was quite hesitant to start speaking online. In fact, the cyber world was something I was afraid of. After an eye-opening discussion with some dear friends who said, all I see you do is post your events, classes and performances, I don't even know who you are. People online now a days create relationships, you're not just a company blasting sales and ads all over the place, you're a person.
So Hello Cyber World...Nice to Meet you...I guess this is me...
So, in the later parts of last year I went on an internal search. I mean, if I wanted to stay up to date with the evolving times, be a contributor to the world, and be authentic, I definitely had some work to do. Time to start shedding some skin here baby. They said the world was going to end December 21, I think my new world just started then...as it did for everyone I guess.
By the end of this month I'll be reaching my 6th month of devotion to yet again, understanding my new truths. Even more so, when I pulled out my calculator, at the end of March, I will be reaching my 10th year anniversary from quitting my engineering job. Holy MFG! Yah!
Looking back at some of the things that have helped me in this journey, I wanted to share with you some of the things I've learned.
LIFE LESSON #1
ACCEPTANCE OF TODAY: In life we are either moving towards or moving away from something. Like this picture. I left engineering to go towards a dream to perform, teach and affect lives as well as towards my deeper understanding of my humanness to live in full acceptance with my sexuality.I was also moving away from a life of expectation, rules, and status quo challenges of what 'success' was suppose to look like.
Today, I can finally see that the journey towards success doesn't look the same across the board. It wasn't linear. It was a dot. A spot, a point. With my very logical mind, this was a hard one to grasp. I struggled with placing a label on me so that I could define an identity. Am I just a Hip Hop Dancer, an engineer, nope, how about a performing artist, what kind of artist, not a poor one, someone who makes a lot of money...is that possible?
The truest acceptance of success is the truest acceptance of where you are today, what you believe in today, what you are feeling today. Not right, wrong, good or bad, it is exactly what it is. That is the only truth that you know, and nothing else. So when we can live truly in the moment of full appreciation of what is happening right now, it will give us the answers to which direction we so choose to go from here. It's like playing. You get lost in the moment, you love every moment of it, you're fully engaged and you're perfectly in the right place at the right time...or not and you laugh about it.
Stay tuned for more Life Lessons. Thank you Bea for inspiring me to stay connected and share my story. And so it shall.
