Wednesday, September 1, 2010

2. Alone and Together


Movement Minyan comes to Burning Man
Examining Assumptions
My brainstorm about this session grew out of my thinking about the previous session, Alone and Together I - since they were both happening in the particular context of the Burning Man festival, and would happen over the course of two consecutive days.  In gathering and reformulating material from the final session of the Movement Minyan, I had to continue to reflect on what it would mean to bring this practice to a context and group of people who I didn't know, and whose familiarity with Judaism, liturgy, and movement I had no way of being able to predict.


Making it Cosmic
This session, in many ways, was easier to introduce than the first since so many people are familiar