Rick (Rumi) Kakareka

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Phone: 703-966-7138

Artist’s Objectives
To develop expressive tools, means, and forms for ‘deep play’.
To facilitate improvisational invitations across mixed media which draw out and enhance our creative power and nourish our sense of connection to our individual yearnings, our communities and workplaces, our world and our Source.

Current Project
The Living Masquerade.  Masked performance is used throughout the world in settings varying from secular street theater and burlesque to settings of high cultural and sacred significance. In Living Masquerade we aim our improvisational process accordingly. I have used this process with others for clarifying goals and releasing fear, for community celebration, and for spiritual exploration. The invitations are in movement and color, in story and word, in voice, rhythm, and stillness, in character and costume, for both individuals and groups.

Current Offerings
Day or weekend events in either Living Masquerade or Interplay modes.
Body Coaching, working with individuals to develop their creative, expressive and physical power.
Celebration!  I love to collaborate with others to shape customized events.


Relevant Experience
Certified Interplay Leader.
Member Big Yes— DC Area Interplay Performance troop.
Visual arts— maskmaker, painter, illustrator.
Movement — yoga instructor, Exuberant Animal training, high school tennis coach 2008, 2009.
Volunteer Docent, 5 years at National Museum of African Art Smithsonian
Co-Founder Integral Life Practice group, a spiritual practice group.
Founder DC chapter Joe Campbell Mythological RoundTable.
Singer/songwriter, drummer.


References
Tom Goddard,  Founder of The Integral Company 703-585-9220
LaVon Hartman, Founder of Buffalo Crossing 703-675-9391