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Domini Boling
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Director: Domini H. Boling, MWS (Masters in Worship Studies) is a former member of the Boston Ballet, with a BS degree in Dance Education. She was a Dance/Drama Specialist for Wake County Public Schools for 15 years, retiring in 1997. Mrs. Domini has ministered in denominational and nondenominational churches around the Triangle since 1988. In 1998, she founded the Jubilate School of the Arts , which was an outgrowth of her worship dance classes she had been teaching for about 10 years in local churches. In November of 2002, Jubilate School of the Arts became Jubilate School of the Arts, Inc. as a non-profit (501-3C) organization to train and equip artists for Christian ministries in creative worship. During 2000 through 2003 she directed a professional dance ministry outreach company, DanceReach, as part of the non-profit. As member of Edenton Street United Methodist Church she found and directed 3 liturgical dance teams. Domini's graduate studies include a year of seminary at Duke University and spiritual formation courses through Wesley Theological Seminary and a Masters in Worship Studies from the Robert Webber' Institute for Worship Studies. She is currently a member of St. Marks United Methodist Church in Raleigh, NC. During the summer of 2013 she spent a month teaching and dancing in Hong Kong and China at various venues. She serves, from time to time, as adjunct professor at Heritage Bible College in Dunn, NC where she co-teaches a course in worship and the arts. She is a mother of 2, step mother of 3, and a grandmother of 9 as well as the devoted wife of Dr. John Boling, formerly with SAS in Cary, NC who is a retired associate professor, and statistician of Duke University School of Nursing.
How it All began
"I returned home as a single mom. My professional dance career was officially over. I had a chronic ankle injury which didn't hold up to pointed toes and jumps and turns. I had already prayed to God that if He healed me I would give my dance to the Lord. I had never seen worship or liturgical dance, nor any kind of Christian dance. I only knew a world with out dancing couldn't be God's will and I was ready to give it to Him to be healed! It was through a dear friend I got cast as Morgan LeFay, a dancing role, in Camelot in 1982. On opening night I took off my bandage and danced the part full out. I knew my prayers had been answered and I was healed! In the dressing room I got down on my knees and thanked God and asked Him to show me what I was to do, how I was to give my dance to the Lord? Afterwards, I stepped out into the hall way. There were audience members speaking to different cast members. A United Methodist preacher who I had never met approached me. He didn't know then that God was leading him to me. He asked me to dance in his church during Holy Week in the spring! Of course I said "yes!" He wanted a dance around the temptations of Christ, (Matthew 4)
About a month before Holy Week, I began to work on the piece with 3 dancers. I didn't know two of the dancers, a male and female, were actually involved in an adulterous relationship! When they didn't show up for rehearsals, I begun to see the dance falling apart! I left the studio and began to weep and cry out to God. I sat in a church trying to understand what the Lord wanted out of me! It was two weeks before Good Friday, the date the church was expecting the dance! Back in my car, I turned on the radio and a portion of Chariots of Fire was playing. Within an hour I was back in the studio with the dance downloading in my mind to a particular 20 minutes of the movie's sound track. My one dancer left found another dancer and it was soon obvious I was to dance the role of Christ. I didn't know Christ. I understood and had felt the power of the Holy Spirit, but no one had explained to me the role Christ played in our salvation! I knew the doctrine, but in my home church back then, I just hadn't heard the whole story. I had a strong relationship with God, my Father and Creator, but there was more, which I was to learn dancing the role of Christ (dressed as a male) in the wilderness! The day of that Good Friday I lay in bed throwing up with anxiety. I later realized the Enemy was trying his best to stop what was to be my dance of faith that would change my life forever." ....Domini
How it All began
"I returned home as a single mom. My professional dance career was officially over. I had a chronic ankle injury which didn't hold up to pointed toes and jumps and turns. I had already prayed to God that if He healed me I would give my dance to the Lord. I had never seen worship or liturgical dance, nor any kind of Christian dance. I only knew a world with out dancing couldn't be God's will and I was ready to give it to Him to be healed! It was through a dear friend I got cast as Morgan LeFay, a dancing role, in Camelot in 1982. On opening night I took off my bandage and danced the part full out. I knew my prayers had been answered and I was healed! In the dressing room I got down on my knees and thanked God and asked Him to show me what I was to do, how I was to give my dance to the Lord? Afterwards, I stepped out into the hall way. There were audience members speaking to different cast members. A United Methodist preacher who I had never met approached me. He didn't know then that God was leading him to me. He asked me to dance in his church during Holy Week in the spring! Of course I said "yes!" He wanted a dance around the temptations of Christ, (Matthew 4)
About a month before Holy Week, I began to work on the piece with 3 dancers. I didn't know two of the dancers, a male and female, were actually involved in an adulterous relationship! When they didn't show up for rehearsals, I begun to see the dance falling apart! I left the studio and began to weep and cry out to God. I sat in a church trying to understand what the Lord wanted out of me! It was two weeks before Good Friday, the date the church was expecting the dance! Back in my car, I turned on the radio and a portion of Chariots of Fire was playing. Within an hour I was back in the studio with the dance downloading in my mind to a particular 20 minutes of the movie's sound track. My one dancer left found another dancer and it was soon obvious I was to dance the role of Christ. I didn't know Christ. I understood and had felt the power of the Holy Spirit, but no one had explained to me the role Christ played in our salvation! I knew the doctrine, but in my home church back then, I just hadn't heard the whole story. I had a strong relationship with God, my Father and Creator, but there was more, which I was to learn dancing the role of Christ (dressed as a male) in the wilderness! The day of that Good Friday I lay in bed throwing up with anxiety. I later realized the Enemy was trying his best to stop what was to be my dance of faith that would change my life forever." ....Domini
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