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Presenting poetry and dance as a unified art form

For the 2010 Dancing Poetry Winners list, please double click on the tab "2010 Winners and Festival."  For the text of the Grand Prize Winning Poem, "Duet" by Ana Elsner of San Francisco, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. Thank you. 
Ana Elsner
Ana Elsner, San Francisco, CA, reading her Grand Prize Winning Poem, "Duet."
"Duet" by Ana Elsner as danced in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco, September 18, 2010
"Duet" by Ana Elsner, danced by Natica Angilly's Poetitc Dance Theater Company, read on stage by Richard and Natica Angilly
"Duet" by Ana Elsner, as danced at the Dancing Poetry Festival, 2010
Ana Elsner takes her bow on stage with the dancers after the performance of the Grand Prize Winning Poem, "Duet."
DUET
By Ana Elsner, San Francisco, CA
2010 Grand Prize Winner
     1st Person:                                     2nd Person:
 Pick up this fabric.                   Pick up this fabric of light
   and drape it.                               Pick up this fabric.
Pick up this fabric of silk                and embroider it.
Pick up this fabric.                   Pick up this fabric of sky
   and paint it.                               Pick up this fabric.
Pick up this fabric of hemp             and sew it up.
  This fabric of Life                      soaked in sweat,
  This fabric of Life                    stained with blood,
  This fabric of Life                    steeped in destiny.
Stitch it together                             with words
  with YOUR words.                           Wash it
      in your tears.                             Embroider it
                         with poems,                                with prayers,
   with pearls of forgiveness,     with sweet jasmine and honey.
Pick up this fabric                    and print it with patterns of joy,
  with scales of music.                       Pick up this fabric.
Pick up your fabric                   and pleat it into folds of consolation.
Pick up this fabric                                YOUR fabric
and drape it                                   around your shoulders;
This pliable canvas of life                   YOUR life,
  for the picking,                               for the picking-out,
for the picking-up-on
         PERFECTLY.