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Helen Pickett’s “Eventide,” for example, was wondrously cosmopolitan. Pickett, one of the three female choreographers, merged classical East Indian music with that of Western composers for her score. The merger directed the movement. Dancers displayed quick, sharp footwork, but then surprised with slower, sensuous pair interactions. The piece culminated in a kinetic explosion. Set against the backdrop of an abstract expressionist painting, the corps and the principal dancers responded almost instinctively to musical cues. They splattered and dripped with the flick of Pickett’s brush...
...Santa Fe, N.M., therapist Melissa Pickett says she hears a lot about polar bears and whales. "People tell me how an article about the polar bears losing their habitat was really upsetting to them," she says. Treatment includes placing a photograph of a polar bear into the patient's hands and encouraging him or her to have a conversation with the bear as a way to ease the patient's despair. Pickett might also suggest that patients do their own research into the polar bears' situation. The hope is that patients will begin to better understand their feelings. As they...
...Santa Fe, Pickett urges her patients to start a garden, take a walk, go for a bike ride or meditate. If you can't go to nature, bring nature to you, she says. Pick up a rock and carry it around in your pocket as a reminder of your connection with the earth. It's all about remembering the joy we had when we played in the sandbox as toddlers or went on snipe hunts at summer camp...
...things I've done in my own self-growth, coming back into connection with the natural world has been singularly the most helpful for me," says Pickett, who worked in the banking industry for 16 years before becoming a counselor in 2000. "It's not too late. If I had a message, it would be of hope and of what...
...horror heroes idolizedby Bobby Pickett as a boy made him one of the country's best-known one-hit wonders. At a nightclub gig, the pop singer delivered his impression of Boris Karloff. When bandmates pressed him to incorporate it into a song, Pickett wrote Monster Mash in half an hour. Released in 1962, it became a three-time No. 1 hit and a Halloween perennial. He was 69 and had leukemia...