Human posture...

Human posture is not a right.

Human posture is a privilege.

Human posture needs daily attention.

Daily attention to be human...

six drrrrummers!

I think kids should watch this, but if they bring down the house don't blame me!

Whose Christmas?

Each year I have to define my posture towards Christmas & new Year's eve...As I said on a radio interview a few days ago, one of the most powerful ways to resist to dominant culture is to DANCE!
- Dance???
- yes, dance!
The example I gave is that dominant culture does not consider "taking time" as a human priority...
Dance is all about taking Time & experiencing Space in non conventional ways that can be as extreme as...immobility!
TAKING TIME TODAY IS CRUCIAL.
BEING SENSITIVE TO SPACE TODAY IS URGENT.

This picture of Jesus is meant to be used by Adbusters' activists by TAKING TIME!
I can only applaud such initiatives! I did a street performance in the first half hour of 2006 as "Father Christmas" with an african mask, but very few saw it. Let's go to the malls to slow down! Let's inspire our children instead of spoiling them... James Hillman thinks that "depression" is natural when the world is in a state like the present one. Depression SLOWS ONE DOWN! Slowness forces us to see the essentials and redefine the poetics of this world!
Let's enjoy our Sadness and Slow Down : the world will be thankful...

Zorrro...

How do I communicate the local utopias from now on?
Dancing like a madman in front of agitated students, expressing the incapacity to act towards a direction, implosing violently through an embodiment of urgency / scream?
What Zorro did, cannot continue...
I need to work towards a dance that inspires to transformation : breathe mindfully, act decisively but sensibly, slow down to listen to a planetary pulse, look to your neighbour with empathy, turn mistrust inside out, intrigue the camels to observe your movement, ride you bike to work, hit for the essentials, dress no-logo, dive into your solar plexus before you say no or yes...
May the space be with you!

Photo Credit : Ahlam Ettamri

Batraciens!

Bernardo Montet is performing in Paris this week!
The premiere is in Théâtre de la Ville tonight!
Check the programme here : Bernardo Montet!
I will be there also Friday till Sunday.
A+




Photo credit : Dimitri Tsiapkinis

Our teeth...

Are we all limiting our human potential
just by the health of our teeth?
These data sound alarming!
What do you think?



Photo credit : Ruben Grilo - My teeth in a cross: animal wax and wood, 2004. (picked on archive.org)

Do we need trees?

What a question...
Saving a forest just by clicking?
Hmmm...WWF for Poland!

Ah! And also coffee... We enjoy Ethiopian coffee and the merchants make billions...The Ethiopians don't gain much though...Click to protest : Starbucks!

Global heat...

How can we change?

Are we finalizing something?

Is it already time to go?

Check for your self here : global heat...



Photo Credit:US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Time flies...

I'm just finishing my paper on Art Movement and Therapy and then I'm off to Greece (Nikiti) till September 2!
This is where I will dig into time just to slightly modify my...inner space!Ahlam will be...spacing with me!
I'll redifine my blogging objectives from September on!
Enjoy the space!

Don't stop UN!

United nations are becoming weak!
Please sign petition here : PETITION!

And one little petition for the planet?
Here :-)

dance your brains out of the matrix!

My latest rediscovery : Integral Psychology!

Keep dancing :
space loves you!

And don't forget to laugh at yourself today, it's "healthy" : I'm a monkey!

organic...breath?

I will be studying from Mai 25th through 28th for my Art, Movement & therapy programme : the organicity... Grotowski you know? Diving into the laws of sensitive drama...
After that I will go to Thessaloniki/Greece to present an excerpt of apnea with my fellow dancers!
It will be for the Balkan Arts Market on June 3d...More news after that...Warmest greetings from space!

Dance classes

This week in CCNT,
10:00 to 12:00 a.m.,
I'm teaching
the contemporary dance class / advanced level...

Enjoy the space!

Empathy for life!

Well, on my 3d seminar on Art, Movement & Therapy our teacher Martine de Nardi practiced EMPATHY with us in...real time! An everyday expression for it : being "open" towards a person...
Alternative healing today is based a lot on empathy. People (:us...) need to experience "connectedness", to have our voice heard, to share silent complicity...Touch the body with no judgement and communicate our intention to heal in a non-volontary manner...KEEP PERCEIVING!

To Nuke or not to Nuke?

If you have a problem with nuclear wars
play this game : anti-nuke

Greetings from the Caribbean!

We're dancing the 3d of Mai coupédécalé
in Fort de France / Martinique!
After we give a workshop with Marc & Bernardo and we participate in a debate about dance in the Caribbean!
I'll be back in Tours the 8th of Mai!Enjoy the space!

Empathy

On my return from Prague Thursday 27 of April I will attend my 3d seminar on Art, Movement & Therapy. This time it will be about EMPATHY! I will tell you more when I'm back from...Martinique/Caraibes ;-)

Going on tour!

Hi!
We'll be on tour by tomorrow with the choreography O.More!
See also my previous post : OOO
Below are the dates...You can contact me by Email & sms only!

Ημερομηνίες / Dates:
Turkey
08/04 Eskişehir
11/04 Ankara
14/04 Istanbul
Serbia
19/04 Belgrade
Rep. Czech
25+26/04 Prague

sensory what?

sensory plastic adventures?
doing a "sensitive" duo on a table?
creating sculptures with you inner movement?

in this workshop : "arts plastiques et danse" at the CCNT this weekend! 24-26 March 2006.

with Myriam Valet and me!

ecstasy...

Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic,it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired,because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult,because you are doing something against nature.
OSHO

next week!

Next week
we'll be dancing
Bernardo Montet's
coupédécalé
in Brest
during the Antipodes
Dance Festival!

more good news!

They will manage to make them pay???I sure hope so!
And how can people trust food created by such extremely immoral corporations???They produced agent orange and allowed it to be used!I'll tell you how : people don't know...And governements are for sure making money because of that...Otherwise how can you explain european people refusing OGM's and still EU importing them for animal feeding?! If I were religious I would consider MONSANTO as the devil's representative...and ourselves as the divine...idiots!BOYCOT THEM!!!

good news from earth!

Finaly!Good news!
So ecology is not just about complaining...
It's a series fo battles preserving life...Look here : OOO
and here : OOO
and here : OOO
© Greenpeace / Aikman

Kamala is dancing tomorrow!

my friend Kamala from California
will be measuring spacetime
for dance lovers at the Royal Opera House/London.The company's name is Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company and the performance is tomorrow till Saturday!The composition is by Michael Nyman.
I have never seen their work but I've seen some of Kamala's beautiful dances!
Anyway...it's worth risking an evening for DANCE!I'd love to hear your comments!
INFO HERE!

do you believe in milk???

I was upset once more with this milk business!
"Milk is good for you!" THEY say...
They even confused my poor mother saying that it would help avoid osteoporosis!
Milk industry in the western civilisation seems to be
just one more capitalist money making trick...
See here : OO

introspect the outer world...

It is not necessary
that you leave the house.
Remain at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, only wait.
Do not even wait,
be wholly still and alone.
The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Mac What???

You love Mac Donalds????
A small town in Italy managed to close down one of their restaurants!
Good taste won!
I am very upset about MCDonalds because they practice PROPAGANDA! They manage to persuade school directors to bring entire classrooms for "various activities" in their restaurants!
Little kids getting used to BAD TASTE and Health Trouble...

Sasha Roubicek at the CCNT!

Contemporary dance technique classes /
release based &...Aikido based, with Sasha Roubicek!
Monday 6th through Friday 10th of February at the CCNT!
I have taken a few classes with her at Jerwood space in London
and I loved it!
If you're in Tours or anywhere near take advantage!

Info : + 33 2 47 36 46 00 /National Choreographic Centre of Tours

man - wom(b)an

dream of man => wo-man

dream of woman => man

polarity is measuring

our tension, while...

space "is" loving us

(keep touching :

the "Self" will appreciate)




Bearded Woman

Jusepe de RIBERA - Spanish painter (b. 1591, Játiva, d. 1652, Napoli)

1631
Oil on canvas
Hospital of Tavera, Toledo

O.More

Tomorrow we'll be in Morocco.
Rehearsing for O.More.
Re-experiencing a Gnawa ritual.
Re-living the odours of Marrakech.
Re-becoming Othello.
Re-affirming One Night in Hell...
May the space be (with) us...

I'll meet you there...

Out beyond ideas
of right doing
and wrong doing
there is a field.
I'll meet you there...

Rumi

2006 : let’s take care of « love »…
face to the flux of information that seeks to form our opinions
face to the incapacity to manage this flux
and come to coherent conclusions

I wish us all

the « good » intuition
the « good » perception
the « good » reflection
in order to sculpt a new « human » mobility
face to the world events