Winds of the Hudson through my hair …
Archive for November, 2009
Costume and Inspiration’s for the ” Supermarket Song”
Amuse Me Cabaret outfit for the Supemarket Song, next amuse me performance,
Costume inspired by Sargent’s Madame X and a psychadelic Moon
The Supermarket Song
Dancing in the market place
watching tins go by
what happens to emotions once materials are gone
dancing in the market place
watching cans go by
like all so many boys and girls
waiting to be taken home
what happens to love when the market falls,
will we share …
or will greed
prevail …
arms
elongated,
once, like candle wax,
watching tins of cans of boys and girls
all waiting to be taken home …
( written as the crisis hits the fans, Stamboul November 2008 / NY November 2009 )
…. and day after the party, there were empty wings everywhere,
metamorphosis
cracks at dawn
and catalyzes
nothing will ever be the same again,
wings left behind as the butterflies changed into something even more
spectacular, with a catacalysm of currents on the way forward.
nothing will ever be the same again.
Photo’s and Poem from ” where have all the butterflies gone “
Butterfly Poem sent by Jesse, and installed on the hall of transformations. ..
BUTTERFLIES
To keep beauty flourishing in the air
is the work of butterflies
We all want to speak in this new key of warmth,
every word spoken a tower of reprise,
as we reflect to enjoy this cognitive digestive.
Words spoken once are still shinning
in a cloudy aftermath but
will stop and be still,
for to keep beauty flourishing in the air
is the work of butterflies.
And Photographs of Butterflies and Cocoons of the Nite
Continue reading ‘Butterflies of the night : 14th/15th November 2009′
Dates
dress rehersal : 8th January
performance no 2 & after party : 24 / 25th January
performance no 3 & after party : 14th / 15th February
A muse me cabaret - amuse me - cabaret decadere
Two characters, or spirits are emerging from the Cabaret / Muse Me performance-
A GODDESS OF THE PAST / THE Night - Cabaret Style’
&
A HIGH PRIESTESS OF NOW / THE Sun - Surreal/Supersonic Style
What started last year as a reaction to a crisis / world wide and personal, a story of songs fortelling crisis - notions up in the air - rexamination of there / here - flying through the air and clouds seeking angels, and coming forth back to life with a new constellation of values - saying beauty is all that matters. And sharing - can u share …
The character that emerged to foretell the story had been a cabaret character, resonating back to the thirties when the world was undergoing another similar dissolution of material value …
This cabaret character, neither a caricature nor a replica, simply a reinterpretaion of 30’s cabaret spirit walked through the streets and flew through the air in magic cabaret shoes,
examining the new emerging constellations …
And discovered a new platform for presentation of the story - not a stage, but many stages, not one audience, but many audiences, interacting together through sharing food.
This platform for sharing a performance was to be the internet … and cabaret, gained a new name. Conceptualizing a platform to stream video and music live … thinking more basic and internet wise … another spirit became predominant
This spirit, of pscyhcic connectivity through the internet, mirrored the changes in technology and society.
Once, a supposed dichotomy between spirit / technology is lifted, dissolved, as all dichotomies should be, and the internet is becoming more and more a place of spiritual sharing .
The two characters that emerge - the cabaret character and the muse me internet character, a goddess of the night versus a high priestess of contemporary spirituality.
Reality as we were accustomed to - Material - past dreams of modernity and mechanics ( and an escapism from that ) - are in the cabaret character - the night - the moon
Spirituality - Emotions - Now - Psychic Connectedness - Contemporary rituals, the seeking and spreading of ancient rituals ( and a combination, dissolving of the dichotomy of spiritual / technologoical ) - are in the electronic high priestess - light - the sun
The two characters, the moon and the sun, the old and the new, the moon that covers as a blanket all that has been lived, all the seeds that have been sown, and feeds dreams, that sprout for the sun, who chases them high and wide forth into the universe, nurturing and blessing and endowing with possibility …
Now … these two characters, that have emerged from the story to be told, and the way the story will be told, chase each other hand in hand through the performance ..
as the sun follows the moon follows the sun
in a perpetual motion
of tides
of learning
and growth’
and celebration
A Heart of Glass coccon cracks,
and out emerges a butterfly to flaps it’s wings to the Bright Dark Night
for all butterflies … an invitation to ” Where have all the Butterflies Gone “
Continue reading ‘“Where have all the Butterflies gone” - an invitation’
Muse Me, is a performance about creating in unision around the world.
In parallel to it’s development as a performance, Muse Me offers a series
of workshops for school children.
Workshops
These workshops aim at cross cultural community building between schools
in Turkey and the US, in order to prepare children of the world for global
ciltizenship and promote understanding between cultures through
transcultural creativity in the arts curricula.
How
Students from schools in New York and Turkey are to be bridges through
sharing through the internet, participating in parallel workshop
process’s, and the sharing of their results and experiences through the
internet utilizing content sharing and community building websites.
Workshops
Introducing cultural attributes of different countries to each other for a
united world. The dance & music of different cultures are introduced to
students and serve as legacy carriers to promote understanding and inspire
to connect.
Process
- Dance / Music
A series of dance improvisations, through different genres of music :
Classical, jazz, cabaret, electro, punk, rock & eclectic music
The concept is one of sufi twirling through different genres of music,
recognizing the same central motif :
” the dancer turns round with the earth turning in the universe, all of
us, all on earth, and the univese turning together with love …. “
Thus, a pirouette and a sufi turn, both become visible as love /
togetherness in the universe. And participating students get to work with
seeing concepts of naratives and relocating them / discovering them in
their abstracts, in other music forms - recognizing the universality of
the dance and it’s meaning of unification.
Workshop Module 1
( A short and impactful workshop )
Duration : 3 sessions.
An impact approach of meet, learn, practice, perform, show and reflect.
The workshop introduces the students to the main tenets of the sufi sema
dance. The idea of universality, and all of us, on earth, turning with
love, together with the earth, in the universe.
The students are then allowed to practice the sufi dance themselves, and
abstract the movement, concept, to themselves apply to different genres of
music, and recognize that the meaning continues in different parameters
aswell.
The aim, of the workshop, by experimentation with the students
coreographing their own movements, to arrive at the universality of the
twirl , and it’s meaning of love / universality / one-ness.
How the workshop will be conducted
Two participating schools, one in Turkey and one in NY
Each school has a workshop coordinator : An art / dance teacher.
The workshop coordinator introduces the students to different kinds of
music, and explains the main tenet’s of the sufi dance and asks the
students to experiment with this dance to different kinds of music.
Thereby abstracting and simplifying the message, of us turning with the
world in the universe with love.
& students are invited to see / follow future of performances of Muse Me
through internet
Requirements to participate :
A coordinator in each school
intenet access
classrooms with space to dance
music system
computers connected to a video camera
a projector.
1st session ; meet, learn, practice
2nd session : perform
3rd session : watch own performances and reflect, and invite students to
follow future muse me performances on web and real life in parks and
internet in spring 2010.
Workshop module 2.
a slightly longer workshop with ” Small Progress”
duration : 8 hours
4 hours dance
4 hours transcultural exchange with other countries / schools utilizing ”
Youth Voices”
How the workshops will be conducted
Collaborating schools
An arts / dance / music teacher or coordinator in each school
Parallel workshops.
requirements to participate
internet access
music system
video cameras
computers to upload video
projectors
sessions.
introduction to subjects
music practice
dance practice
performance
video / photography / blog updates
sharing of these reflections with parallel schools.
Workshop Module 3.
an extended workshop of cultural exchange between schools here and there.
Here / There meaning in NY and Turkey.
Each school to provide a co-ordinator, within art curricula - either dance / music or arts.
duration : 10 weeks
1. arts in education
2. costumes for dance improvisation / evolution are built.
3. music, video
How the workshops will be conducted
requirements to participate
internet access
a room reserved for dance / music and costume making.
sessions.
10 weeks, allows a more intense delving into the cultural history of the creative elements.
Firstly the students are presented with the cultural narratives behind sufism, and the different genres of music they will listen to, from a universl persepective.
They will then be given some historical backgrounds of dance / music / sufism in the different cultures - countries they are in contact with ( Turkey / US )
Then proceed to elementary dance stretching exercises for beginners
Then proceed to sufi dance tenets
Then an examination of the internet as a means of communication for a global and united community around the world.
Examine how technology and communication can enhance collaboration and creativity between cultures
The practice
The performance
The sharing with other cultures
The reflections on the process
The making of blog posts, video and music sharing through community posts.
The making of a book of the process.
’ as time reminds, that it never existed, a new photo / installation series ……… ‘
Winds of the North Sea, Bosphorus & NY
encapsulated here eternity / infinity, and winds sweeping thru a window,
swept through my window at 06.03 and lit a fire of feathers and glass, candles and cracked wax, and awoke in the midst of real red flame, to hygge galore and the cure; singing
a series of photographic prints of installation
digital print on fine archival paper
( 29 x 21 ) cm / without frame
editons : 5 + 1 artist copy
installation
sheets of plastic encapsulating air, winds, fire, feathers, fairy dust
( 200 x 70 ) cm
single copy
