Sandra Evans Falconer
  • Home
  • Books
  • Collaborations
  • Testimonials
    • Writing, Grants & Awards >
      • Learn to Write
  • Essence
    • Living Waters: Voices from the R.M.S. TITANIC
    • Ragbone Poems (just for fun & mirth)
    • Poetry >
      • Poems from the collection, The Lucky Spot Dance
    • Playwright
    • Dance
  • Contact
  • From a Writer's Notebook
  • Coming Next
  • New Page
Living Waters: Voices from the R.M.S. TITANICLiving Waters: Voices from the R.M.S. TITANIC (An original performance piece) 

"A moving, fascinating performance combining words and music, as Sandra Evans Falconer becomes various characters involved in some way with the fated ship. Anyone interested in the Titanic will love this remembrance."
– Deborah L. Bors, Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press

click here for more details

Introducing Sandra Evans Falconer...

Sandra Evans Falconer is an award winning literary artist, writer, author, poet, playwright, and dance artist for special populations. 
Picture
“These poems are cat-like in their mystery and grace, magical, able to leap between worlds and still come for the morning milk. The reader is riveted…”

​– Kendra Kopelke, Writer in Residence, University of Baltimore

(Praise about Sandra's best selling book...Imagining the World)

Author’s note on her current project:

Sandra has recently completed her first stage play, The Lucky Spot Dance. Please watch the website for news about future productions of this play. Sandra is now working on the early drafts of her second play, a full length production entitled: Been There All the Time: The Story of Grace.
​   Grace is a 50 year old bi-racial woman living in the south at the turn of the 20th century. She is an ex -prostitute and singer, searching for her daughter, Cat, who has disappeared, and is presumed dead. 
Read more here:
Please go to the Coming Next section of the website to read excerpts from current work in progress. Thank you! 

Notes on Sandra’s first play, The  Lucky Spot Dance

Picture
Picture
 In 1993, when Sandra was living in Baltimore, she began writing a series of narrative poems about her relationship with her brother, Steven.  In April of 1996, Steven passed away at his home in Philadelphia. Bonni Goldberg, Sandra’s mentor at the time, asked her: How can we remember our loved ones except in our memories and in our dreams?
Gradually, Sandra’s poems changed into a stage play titled, The Lucky Spot Dance.  At the heart of the dance, where memory lives on, and and the lucky spot shines, is a central question: What do you do when you love someone you can’t save?
Read more here:

Learn more about the essence of Sandra'...
Essence
image courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandy_dancer
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.