Today we’d like to introduce you to Simeon Den
Hi Simeon, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I was profiled last year in a T Mobile video promotion as representative of my Boomer Generation. I had no control over any of the production but rather. just simply grateful that I would be considered to speak for my Brothers and Sisters. When I recently viewed it I realized that I hadn’t taken the time to scrutinize it those first several times I had watched it and in retrospect, did not want to be characterized as bragging.
Looking back at these past decades of my life, I have the good fortune to have been charmed! Although my immigrant, working-class parents were loving and supportive they could ill-afford to provide for myself and seven siblings a Top-of he-Line American Dream , we managed and so did I. Coming from a modest neighborhood in Honolulu, I managed to get accepted to an East Coast college and pay my own way by working three jobs to cover the expenses.
This was the start of the unfolding of my so-called Charmed Life (lives):, which I believed was as a result of me believing & trusting in myself.
In this TMobile clip of me that is attached here, I revisit my first job as a professional dancer as a fluke. Even before I took my first dance lesson, I was cast in a spectacular Las Vegas -type show, which led to a chance encounter with a teacher who told me that the LA Music Cener was doing a production of The King & I with Ricardo Montalban; which I was also cast and got my Actors Equity union card, which lead to the choreographer of that production was the original Eliza in the 1952 BWay production and became a mentor who urged me to go to New York which I did do and got a full-scholarship to theAlvin Ailey School. and three months later got into a professional Modern Dance company, aftterwhich I was cast two months later in the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures. Three months after “Pacific Overtures” closed I was cast in the BWay revival of “The King & i” starring Yul Brynner and 6 months into the run was cast into a brand new BWay show which “flopped” after the out-of-town-tryouts and my good fortune continued when three months later I was cast in a BWay bound production of “Pal Jpey” with MISS LENA HORNE!!! Blah, blah, blah , blah blah…..Soon after it closed in 1980 I went home to visit and ended up staying to start teaching, after which I opened my dance school that I successfully owned/ operated / choreographed at for 17 years.. It goes on and on from getting diagnosed HIV+ in 1983, to after the AIDS drugs became availkable in 1995 I moved to LA, toured with a few shows and re-establishing myself as a photographer. The Charmed Life” continued to today. My claim in the TMobile clip is that I attribute my success to FEARLESSNESS. That’s the truh .The whole honest truth. My concern in this crossroads of my life it– as I reinvent myself as a sound energy worker practitioner, for last 10 years,and as I go public to treat /service more people– can continue to renew my FEARLESSNESS?
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Truthfully, I wass widely stupid or wildly fortunate in my so-called fearleeness.
There were no obstacles except if and when I started to 2nd guess myself. I just previously attributed my past successes to fearlessness. Obstacles & Challlenges. And the real truth is FOR SOME REASON, I never ever thought about not succeeding.. Perhaps due to the ignorance of Youth. , :failinf” was never in the equation. I was not delutional nor was I conceited . Looking back. it was all fun. It all fit into my passion. I self-created and the most crazy part is “failure” was not in my vocabulary. I feel a need to recreate that now
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I listed in the first window. (i.e. BWay shows etc.)
I’m an OG elder in the Hawaii dance world and fairly well-know in the meditation &sound energy community
I produce sound energy meditation events with Alma Cielo a classical violinist and sarangi (old Indian string instrument) & Malia Ma who conducts the moving meditations that participants are encouraged to join
Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers?
For past 20 years I have. Den practicing an energy practice that is directed to enhance healings,
In last 5 years I’ve focused on Sound Energy Immersians popularly known as sound bathes I’ve in crease my sound energy meditations in West La & Pasadena including at my historic home in Cathedrsl City, built by the celebrated Mid Century painter ( Transcendental Painting group)
www.AgnesPeltonsociety.com
Pricing:
- $20 suggested donation
- $20 advanced payment to Veno
- $30-^$40 door
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.simeondenwellness.com/
- Email: [email protected]
- Other: Simeon. Den Wellness
