Ebb and Flow A Blessing for Los Angeles - Jane Engleman

Ebb and Flow is a graphic poem-a living movement of dance, meditation, and reflection woven into the breathing fabric of Los Angeles. It follows the pulse of the city as it exhales chaos and inhales stillness, finding grace between concrete and sky. Bodies move like tides, rising and falling in rhythm with traffic, with memory, with the hum of human connection.

Here, dance becomes prayer, a language without words, a gesture of healing. Each turn, each pause, each grounded step is a return to self, to community, to the quiet voice that whispers love into the noise. Through soft motion and vibrant color, Ebb and Flow asks how we can mend what's been fractured, how rhythm can bring restoration where grief once lived.

The piece imagines Los Angeles not as a place of division but as an ocean of becoming, where energy shifts like water meeting shore. The choreography is a map of forgiveness, and the poetry a mirror reflecting light back onto forgotten streets. Peace unfolds not as absence but as movement - a continuous act of surrender and renewal, a wave of love rising again and again, washing over the city until it shines.