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2 Weeks to Go: MaMa Project 2011 “Embers” March 3, 4, 5!

Kudos to Sevan Gatsby for our beautiful PR image. Please share!!

Beautiful and Haunting Decay

Yves Marchand and Roman Meffre’s photography captures stunning abandoned places. They are at once eerie and inspiring.

The Ruins of Detroit and Theaters

 

 

Speaking well, Carl Sandburg Poems

Valley Song YOUR eyes and the valley are memories. Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl. It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline. It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley. 5 I will see you again to-morrow. I will see you again in a million years. I will never know your dark eyes again. These are three ghosts I keep. These are three sumach-red dogs I run with. 10 All of it wraps and knots to a riddle: I have the moon, the timberline, and you. All three are gone—and I keep all three. Jabberers

I RISE out of my depths with my language. You rise out of your depths with your language. Two tongues from the depths, Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike, Fling their staccato tantalizations 5 Into a wildcat jabber Over a gossamer web of unanswerables. The second and the third silence, Even the hundredth silence, Is better than no silence at all 10 (Maybe this is a jabber too—are we at it again, you and I?) I rise out of my depths with my language. You rise out of your depths with your language. One thing there is much of; the name men call it by is time; into this gulf our syllabic pronunciamentos empty by the way rockets of fire curve and are gone on the night sky; into this gulf the jabberings go as the shower at a scissors grinder’s wheel….

 

Disneyland Dream 1956

Over Christmas I’ve been looking through the Opinions pages of the NYT and came across this Frank Rich article. Amateur filmmaker Robbins Barstow, from Connecticut, is featured in the article for his home video film of his family’s free trip to Disneyland in 1956–when the park was brand new.

It’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic when watching or even flipping through the 34-minute narrated story. Yet, at the same time, so many of the original Disney rides have stayed exactly the same, even at Disney World. Barstow is a fantastic storyteller and and has great timing with all of his comments, jokes, and descriptions. It really warmed my heart… it seems almost too innocent… but I guess that’s one of the ways in which nostalgia works… washing over memories (which might not even be your own) with melting yellows and extra-dimpled smiles.

Check it out: Full vacation

Or on youtube in 3 parts:

Hand Dancing, bringing it back

I’m looking forward to working with Rebecca to teach a hand Irish step dance like this to the “childhood” memories group when we get back!

Werds over Tyme

Google Labs\’ new \”Ngram\” tool is a pretty cool thing you should check out! Compare the prevalence in text of two words over time… trendy (literally). Map time! Memory! Check out the NYT article for more info!

Memory vs. Dance

Lipstick vs. Rouge

notice 1970s- 2nd wave feminism and the rise of specialized cosmetics.

Picture vs. Film… when moving images surpass the static??

And lastly…

Peter Pan vs. Paul Bunyan (yes, I’m an American Studies enthusiast)

Yes, this is a nerdy post. Yes, I am now on break… but trust me, it’s cool. Play around, have fun… but know it only covers less than 10% of books!

Recently Watched:

A Dance Film

Wednesday night, Paul and I went to Judson Memorial Church to see a showing of the dance film Finite and Infinite Games, choreographed by Katherine Helen Fisher. The dancers filmed the 9 pieces in Judson Church and also danced them in the same beautiful space in real time on Wednesday night. The film was played simultaneously above the dancers and the large mural that created a wonderful atmosphere for the work. It was a beautiful, colorful production thanks to collaborations with a Brooklyn artist, two fashion designers in Rome, and a famous dance photographer/filmmaker.

A Film About Dance

Black Swan. It was a trippp. Wow. Very well done and really speaks to artistic drive, to playing a role, to pushing the body, and to the psychological pressure of the ballet world.

A Music Video With Dancing

This video is just fun. I’m liking this lady’s dancin’ and the freezes. Plus, I really like her dress that she wears in both black and pink in the end…

And, A Music Video That Jogs the Memory

Grainy, 80s, Karaoke, old pictures, a silly beat… what’s not to enjoy? Theophilus London, “Humdrum Town,”

P.S. the music videos are courtesy of Paul E. Flannery

The beauty of structured improv

Erin and I started working today on a solo that would be influenced by an idea of flashbacks and inward recollection. A stack of images on promotional postcards from DTW over the past four years provided an interactive frame. We positioned the images in a spiral and most images had a corresponding movement phrase.

The combination of set movement and set structure with improvisatory connective material produced a beautiful result. We will continue to set and hone these ideas and movements and it will be done amidst a “movement sea,” as I call it.

It’s just a little sample of what’s going on and the beauty the newness of something!

14 Actors Acting

My lovely friend Lauren sent me a link to this and I’m so grateful. It’s pretty cool to see actors we all know performing as if for the silent screen. Without their voices, they almost become dancers… their physicality is everything.

I also love the psychological aspects of each of these moments. Stereotypes, though they may seem, it’s a really cool survey of dramatic acting.

“Icons” ladies, take note!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#index

“They were directed by Solve Sundsbo of Norway, whose clients as a fashion photographer have included Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana. The videos accompany the black-and-white portraits Mr. Sundsbo shot for “The Scene Makers: Actors Who Defined Cinema in 2010,” in the Hollywood Issue of The New York Times Magazine.

“You’re going from making iconic images to creating narratives,” he said, “but there is less of a narrative capacity in 60 seconds, so you need to create something like a poem that can lead your imagination.”

Kathy Ryan, the magazine’s photo editor, put the challenge simply: “We had to get somewhere really quickly with an impact. And it had to be beautiful.”