culture. Particularly when it comes to using movement connected to feelings. In the dance world the reaction I often get is that is therapy, not I've never found this prejudice in the world. I search for real-life-as-art. I want the personalized self-body to become the metaphor for the big collective body. I don't like the way ballet, modern, or even postmodern dance armors the body personality by abstracting feelings, content, and physical movement. It becomes formalized art, feels distant from life, and doesn't involve me. I can be momentarily entertained, excited, even elevated like anyone else that goes to dance performances, but it doesn't last. I often visit the Native American Pomo Roundhouse. The Roundhouse is partially underground-the entrance is a narrow passage that opens up into a round space with a dirt floor, an open fire, an opening in the roof for the sky to enter and the smoke to leave, a center pole, and a rhythmically pounded drum made from a log over a resonating hole in the ground. It's a mystical theatre. The people dance their prayers, their stories, their healings, and their dreams. They joke and feast, the young and old. Some dances outsiders can join; other dances are only for the initiated. When Loren Smith, a Pomo Healer, comes to Circle the Earth he understands what is happening, even though it's nothing like his dances, and he is a great critic. He knows when the power is present, when it isn't, and why. I'm comfortable, at home so to speak, with this kind of theatre as well. What interests me is how completely interwoven the many threads of cultural life are-social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic. It's more than just dance.