19 / June/ '01
Hi,
I received a copy of your e-mail regarding copies of Heather Rose's 'Dance me to my song'.
You can obtain copies through a company called 'Vertigo'. Along with the movie there is also a documentary available on Heather's trip to the film festival in France. Vertigo's e-mail address is [log in to unmask]
They will be happy to help you.
Kind Regards
Jo Walters
>>> 06/17/01 12:44 PM >>>
Hi Katie
I'm really surprised anybody hasn't mentioned "Dance Me To My Song" yet. It goes further than the Doco "Untold Desires" to 'redress the balance' in a way - I was in that.
"Dance Me To My Song" was written, starred in and also produced, I think, by Heather Rose, a woman disabled by severe Cerebral Palsy from South Australia. It's a love story - about how the woman in the picture "steals" the affections of a guy from her carer - who must be the carer from Hell! You feel like cheering when she gets her come-uppance!
(It was interesting for me to find the sex scene with Heather Rose erotic. I guess that's because I, like many of us, I guess, have never been shown that a body like ours could ever BE in a sexy scene in a movie... I must say, after 18 years of a relationship with the same guy it still surprises me that he say MY body turns him on. I have learnt to accept it, even though it "does not compute".
My minister, from a small metaphysical-teaching church, helped me immeasurably in this area - he once told me, amongst other things of course, that just MY perception of me was just that - MY perception - and I was insulting others by not accepting that their perception can be different and better.
(And as for people who have worse perception - well - accept them, the person - but know that I AM a "section" if you like of Divine energy and know that their perception was "shallow" I think he would have said.)
VERY useful stuff !
Actually if I had my way, every prospective carer should be shown "Dance Me To My Song" - it exposes, at times brutally, what some people must say behind our backs, tho not often to our faces - at least I have never experienced what was in the film. I don't mind admitting I cried angry tears all the way home...
Jai Guru Dev,
"Sundari [pronounced Soon-{like lun in lunatic}-DHE-ree (my e-mail name)].
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