Laure Courtellemont - Global Dance Centre - 2012

BALDWIN'S NIGGER - Man, where are you from?

Jessye Norman: "Stand Up Straight and Sing!"

Lest We Forget How Beautiful We Are

Art Meets Science & Spirituality

  

I met John Cage in a dream.

In my dream, I got an electronic message that read Cage: Anne Williams

This woke me up immediately, I have no idea what it meant or means. Save to say, later that morning; while surfing the net, I came across the american theatre director Robert Wilson who was doing a one-man play, Robert Wilson: John Cage's Lecture on Nothing, at the UCLA performing arts center.

You can imagine how startling this was... I have since been to the library, and have checked out, and read Cage's books, For the Birds, and more.

He has helped further open my creative mind.

I am in awe of the work of Robert Wilson... especially the design aspect of his work.

Through Robert Wilson I rediscovered, and saw, for the first time, Marina Abramovic.

Chicky Thoughts

The One Chicken says to the Other Chicken.

ONE CHICKEN

                                         Do you think humans would respect us more if we could fly... do you think they'd eat us, and our embryos, less maybe?

The Other Chicken responds, taking in the thought.

OTHER CHICKEN

                                         Pak, pak, paak.

Pico Iyer: Where is Home?

This talk has assisted me to find my direct research question:

Can one find Home in Exile? I deal with the Question, through Theatre: Can the Actor find Home in Performance? 

On Kanye West

This brother is sprinting this marathon called life.

Telegraph to the Sky

On Creation; the Revelation of Life

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. - Vida Dutton Scudder

On Mr. West

Yeezus Eternal!!!

The Father - 21 Days to Midnight

In the rhythm...

Lost a lead, found another...

Magic is beginning to happen...

It is in the hands of the higher power...

Excellence will prevail.

A Perspective on the Question of Home

http://www.ted.com/talks/pico_iyer_where_is_home.html

The Father: Formal Work Begins.

I begin formal work on Strindberg's The Father today.

I first came across this play as a high school student, at Machabeng College Lesotho.

I saw it at Maseru Club. A group of 'expatriate teachers' had formed a drama group and they performed this play.

I remember being blown away. First, at the central conflict of the play; then, how powerful Laura was, and thus how influential  a women could be in the domestic setting...

I was brought up by strong women so this was not what shook me. I guess I hadn't seen strength to the degree that Laura wielded it.

I resolved to put on the play one day.

The day is soon.

I see the story happening in an unspecified location.

I want the audience to get a sense of present day SA.

I would like there to be a projector, to fuse the play with imagery.

I meet, soon, with the stage manager to discuss preliminaries.



     

Namhlange eKuseni

GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA: STRANGE DEMOCRACY

http://hammer.ucla.edu/watchlisten/watchlisten/show_id/580121

Journeys of Freedom

I dream a world...

Jozburg Heaven 2012

I looked up at the heavens and felt a sense of relief and comfort. There, in the distance, is the light beyond the clouds... bliss :-) 

NINA on Feeling and Freedom

The True Path

Just before Ninakawa passed away the Zen master Ikkuyu visited him.

'Shall I lead you on?' Ikkuyu asked.

Ninakawa replied: 'I came here alone and I go alone. What help could you be to me?'

Ikkuyu answered: 'If you think you really come and go, that is your delusion. Let me show you the path on which there is no coming and going.'

With his words, Ikkuyu had revealed the path so clearly that Ninakawa smiled and passed away.

~ Zen Stories - some traditional, some by Muju