lacho dives

Dear Traveler,
come rest.

The fire has been waiting for you. Welcome to the fireside of an American Gypsy: histories, dances and survival wisdom from my people, whose survival has never depended on rescue.

Here, dance is the most enduring act we perform: to shake, stomp and jump at the very foundations of who we are, and we have been doing it for a very long time. Movement, not machinery, was humanity's first technology: the way we learned to transmit memory, measure time and make meaning together.

I am opening this fire to you, stranger who I hope may become my friend, because you are the one who heard the call to sit by my side. When you're ready, get up and dance next to the flames.

Lacho drom, Russell