![]() ![]() It took her five years, but I love the way she painted her own audience and just worked her art, did her own magic, made herself happy.Ī few miles from Amargosa…ok, 89 miles but who’s counting, is the life’s work of another person who is an inspiration to me. Danced like no one was watching, because some times no one was watching, and lived happily ever after. She painted the walls, ceiling and stage of the little dance hall, and danced and danced for the next 40 years there.Īt first she had an audience of maybe 6 people, but eventually, this little opera house and Marta danced their way into history.īut I think that the most important this is that Marta did what she wanted to do…fulfilled her life’s purpose. You can go read all about it, but in a nutshell, in 1967, Marta, who was a New York Ballerina, got a flat tire, had it fixed in a gas station right across the street, saw, what was then the remains of a row of shops and a dance hall for the old Borax mining company, rented it… It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. I see it in the little trickles of water, in the Shoshan people, in the creosote, mesquite, the ephemeral spring flowers, the animals and the cacti… Where some people see failure, death and destruction, I see life. I’m smitten with this harsh and hot land. Where there’s a will, there will be a way.
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