not an oxymoron
Posted in Events, performance on Apr 15th, 2009
Dunyati Alembic Monday 4-13 at the Metropolitan Building. This ensemble is an amazing development. A gift to me. They know we go somewhere most don’t know how to get to, and they want to be there. ‘Performance’ tests this delicate work; its a kind of psychic weight lifting. Everyone — including me — wants to [...]
Posted in performance on Mar 17th, 2009
“Art is not an end in itself. It is a medium in service of sacred understanding.” –Rasa, Rene Daumal This is how I started the last post and it works well for yesterday’s performance at Eleanor Ambos’ Metropolitan Building. Six dancers of the Alembic last night included; Nisaa Christie, myself (Dunya), Jennifer Maeve, Kate Temple-West, [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing, performance on Dec 11th, 2008
The Mystic Festival was amazing. Musicians, whirlers and mystic movers from Iran, Pakistan, Moldavia, Iraq, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, India, France, and — with me — the USA presented (which meant performing or teaching, thus very little talk except the wonderful storyteller) beginning at 10am and finishing with a zhikr late in the evening. The [...]