sensory omniviations

Film : Staring into the Sun by Olivia Wyatt

2011-06-12T19:04:00.002+02:00

What is there after post-modernism? Are we post modern? What is our relation to the Ethiopians?

Staring into the Sun from olivia wyatt on Vimeo.

Delirium Tremens again in Greece!

2011-01-14T23:34:00.006+01:00

Video excerpt here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGWuFq435ng

The next performance of Delirium Tremens will be on January 20-21 at the Olvio Theatre, 3 Falaisias street in Athens /Greece. It will be in the same evening with the theatre piece 2 Stories by the company Aithrio Syrma.

The premiere of Delirium Tremens was on April 23d, 2010 at the National Choreographic Center of Tours, in France and was played in Thessaloniki and Athens after that.

Conception, performance : Dimitri Tsiapkinis
Video creation : Maud Martin
Costumes : Rose-Marie Melka
Lighting design : Jean-Philippe Filleul
Production & Communication : Art Minds
Co-Production : National Choreographic Center of Tours
Subsidy : Greek Ministry of Culture

Delirium Tremens is a quest for a new optimism in response to the anxieties of a troubled new century. With humor and gestural poetry, this solo questions individualism and narcissism by using clichés from the movie industry.
« Cultural exoticism, Hollywood images, and the incoherence that seems to govern our actions, dreams and thoughts, become here raw material. Letting ourselves be touched by who we are without judgment (?) and share what resonates inside with others. In this solo one can see video images on TV, cinema characters realizing tests of madness, explosive energy, semi-improvised monologues, and sensitive dances.» [D. T.]
The images on the TV monitors are the only elements of the stage design. A mix of intimate scenes and the omnipresent mass media.

Dimitrios Tsiapkinis received a grant from the Greek ministry of Culture for the production of Delirium Tremens, with his newly established company The Lotus Fracture. (ΡΗΞΗ ΟΚΛΑΔΟΝ)

2011!!! :-)

2011-01-05T00:21:00.004+01:00

Certains droits réservés par Koshyk

May space, time and consciousness continue to surprise us with new and exciting existential recipes!

May the economic crisis give us a final push to dare to change ...

May our intelligence escape from the promotion of a virtual, ready-made Happiness and create new local delights, interdependent and semi-hallucinogenic! :-)

Delirium Back to Greece!

2010-12-23T15:34:00.005+01:00

Video excerpt here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGWuFq435ng

Delirium Tremens will be presented on December 28-30 at the Center of Theatrical Research of Thessaloniki /Greece, and on January 20-21 at the Olvio Theatre in Athens.

The premiere of Delirium Tremens was on April 23d, 2010 at the National Choreographic Center of Tours, in France.

Conception, performance : Dimitri Tsiapkinis
Video creation : Maud Martin
Costumes : Rose-Marie Melka
Lighting design : Jean-Philippe Filleul
Production & Communication : Art Minds
Co-Production : National Choreographic Center of Tours
Subsidy : Greek Ministry of Culture

Delirium Tremens is a quest for a new optimism in response to the anxieties of a troubled new century. With humor and gestural poetry, this solo questions individualism and narcissism by using clichés from the movie industry.
« Cultural exoticism, Hollywood images, and the incoherence that seems to govern our actions, dreams and thoughts, become here raw material. Letting ourselves be touched by who we are without judgment (?) and share what resonates inside with others. In this solo one can see video images on TV, cinema characters realizing tests of madness, explosive energy, semi-improvised monologues, and sensitive dances.» [D. T.]
The images on the TV monitors are the only elements of the stage design. A mix of intimate scenes and the omnipresent mass media.

Dimitrios Tsiapkinis received a grant from the Greek ministry of Culture for the production of Delirium Tremens, with his newly established company The Lotus Fracture. (ΡΗΞΗ ΟΚΛΑΔΟΝ)

Attachement

2010-11-19T18:17:00.004+01:00

[Photo by (CC) : Doug Geisler]

Attachement makes us evolve with the world? Complementary to the cold calculations of the rational mind? Reason and passion?

“…the vision of soul given by anima is more than just one more perspective. The call of soul convinces; it is a seduction into psychological faith, a faith in images and the thought of the heart, into an animation of the world. Anima attaches and involves. She makes us fall into love. We cannot remain the detached observer looking through a lens. In fact, she probably doesn’t partake in optical metaphors at all. Instead, she is continually weaving, stewing, and enchanting consciousness into passionate attachments away from the vantage point of a perspective…”

(James Hillman, Anima)

Andy Emler's Jazz Megaoctet & Bernardo Montet performance!

2010-11-12T23:35:00.004+01:00

Photo by : Dimitri Tsiapkinis

Andy Emler's Jazz Megaoctet with Bernardo Montet and his dancer's perform in Thélème auditorium in Tours / France on Saturday 13th of November 2010.

Crouch, touch, Engage is a composition by Andy Emler and it will be performed by 9 musicians and 4 dancers.

Musicians : Andy Emler (piano, compositions, direction), Laurent Blondiau (bugle, trompette), Laurent Dehors (saxophone ténor, clarinette basse), Thomas de Pourquery (saxophones soprano et alto, voix), Philippe Sellam (saxophone alto), François Thuillier (tuba), Claude Tchamitchian (contrebasse), Eric Echampard (batterie), François Verly (marimba, percussions)

Dancers : Tal Beit Halachmi, Dimitri Tsiapkinis, Bernardo Montet, Marc Veh

Produced by the CCNT, Jazz à Tours, the Petit Faucheux, the François-Rabelais University and the Royaumont Foundation.

Info : http://www.ccntours.com

Rose Elinor Dougall...

2010-11-11T00:17:00.001+01:00

Guitars and voice that get you high! :-)

States of dance...

2010-10-22T18:08:00.007+02:00

[Sabrina, Joe, Bavy, Thierry warming up during Dimitri Tsiapkinis' & Moeketsi Koena's workshop in Antananarivo, september 2010]

When teaching dance what do we transmit?
Do we transmit forms or forms of consciousness?
Relating to one's "own" movement; becoming the object of one's imagination; becoming semi-lucid subject of abstract gestures; elaborating a poetic self; surfing on one's sense of blood flow; asking space for...nothing.
May the dance be with you! :-)

Christoph Mueller | Escape Into Life

2010-10-16T12:42:00.003+02:00

Christoph Mueller | Escape Into Life: "Artist Statement:

Christoph Mueller:
“I came to the solution in the last years of studying that you can try any style or whatever . . . the thing that makes your artwork interesting is when you find out what’s inside of you. Who you are. What gets you going. All that kind of stuff. That’s where it becomes real art. Or at least something that I think is worthy of doing.”"

New dance season at the CCNT

2010-09-17T17:57:00.005+02:00

Tomorrow saturday we present at the CCNT the new danse season. There will be also the projection of the dance film "Promenades sur Loire", of our happening with Bernardo Montet in 2007, at the Loire river.

Info : ccntours.com

Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern, Sónar 2010, Barcelona

2010-08-11T01:12:00.000+02:00

Floating in sonar caves...

Delirium Tremens in Greece!

2010-06-01T11:03:00.002+02:00

Delirium Tremens (demo version / with greek subtitles ) from Dimitrios Tsiapkinis on Vimeo.

Delirium Tremens will be presented on June 4&5 at the Sofouli Theatre in Thessaloniki/Greece, and on June 9-12 at the Roes Theatre in Athens, during the dance festival of the Greek Choreographer's Association.

Dimitrios Tsiapkinis received a grant from the Greek ministry of Culture for the production of Delirium Tremens, with his newly established company The Lotus Fracture.

Emotional intelligence

2010-05-12T11:06:00.004+02:00

Photo by Jean-Jaques L. : http://2jl.deviantart.com/

Enough with the assumption that we are all sick! Maybe it's normal that we are all "neurotic"!
Let's focalise on what it means to be happy and how to transmit it to others! I know...it's hard work most of the time. But what if we can become more and more happiness experts?
Here some tests to see your current happiness scores : http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu

Awareness...

2010-02-25T00:19:00.005+01:00

This is a real picture of a solar eclipse (summer 2009)!

Closer to the sun...closer to the moon...closer to who we are...closer to each other!
Let's cultivate awareness...

Source : scientificamerican.com

Inside...

2009-11-24T09:11:00.002+01:00

...open the window to the west,

and dissappear into the air inside you...

Kabir

Lost cultures : the Nubas of Niyaro

2009-11-14T16:44:00.007+01:00

Tribal beauty survives through oral traditions and passionate lovers of "otherness". European and Arab war lords have crushed cultures that had chosen "mother" consciousness models rather than "father's"...here's an extraordinary video excerpt of the amazing Nuba people in Sudan! It's another planet!

Photo par : Leni Riefenstahl (!?) Do you know what this woman did for the Nazis??? Are these photos her personal exorcism against her dark past?

(I assume there was a copyright problem : blogger erased the photo of Riefenstahl...Hmmm....)

2009-09-26_Street performance in Antananarivo

2009-09-29T08:25:00.002+02:00

2009-09-26_Street performance in Antananarivo, originally uploaded by speedykoala.

How to dance when there are thousands of street kids around?
The opening of the festival i Trôtra (pronounce the "r" the american way) is on september the 30th. I worked with young, non professional, dancers this time and it was a moving experience. Bernardo Montet worked with the professional dancers. In one of the poorest countries in the world with high corruption I have the chance to realize once more, how deeply existential dance is. The urgency to create newtopias, even ephemeral, and live them through embodiment is a state of "freedom" and a source of inspiration; inspiration to live through regimes like the one in Madagascar and have visions of a "better" world...
Freedom in greek : ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ, means openness to that which will come; openness to the unknown...
In the picture you see dancers with street kids...For more pics go here : Flickr-Madagascar

Eros & the Dragon

2009-05-15T16:59:00.003+02:00

"Eros is born of chaos, implying that out of every chaotic moment the creativity of which we have been speaking can be born. Further more, eros will always hearken back to its origins in chaos and will seek it for its vivification. Aristophanes writes even of their mating. Eros will attempt again and again to create those dark nights and confusions which are its nest. It renews itself in affective attacks, jealousies, fulminations, and turmoils. It thrives close to the dragon."

James Hillmann

Photo (CC) by : Ed_meister (Flickr)

Bons enfants!

2009-03-22T09:17:00.001+01:00

This Sunday we danced at Mauricio Cordero's gallery : Du Coté des bons Enfants, in Tours!
It was during the exposition of Olivier Jauzenque!

Photo by : Mauricio Cordero
(http://lesbonsenfants.bonnes-nouvelles.fr/)

More good news!

2009-01-12T20:52:00.002+01:00

Controlling the arm trade is becoming a reality! Almost all countries voted for a treaty!
Guess who didn't want to sign? look here : Control arms

Photo by phauly

Dance in Chile

2008-12-15T16:21:00.004+01:00

Third and last day of the workshops taught by Bernardo Montet and Dimitri Tsiapkinis in the University of Santiago / School of the Arts.
Sharing experience, mouvement and dance theories.
We also participated in a conference about Bernardo's approach to dance with video excerpts, and also about the role of National choréographic centers in France.
We conluded the conference with a dance improvisation between me and the Chilian musician Pajaro.
We were assisted by Andrea Muñoz who also captured the image of this note.
I will stay for one more week to visit Santiago, Valparaiso and Serena.
May the space be with you! :-)

Para aquellos interesados aquí es una bibliografía :
* Ken Wilber : Breve historia de todas las cosas. Barcelona. Kairós. w4.
* Le mouvement dans tous ses états. Eve Berger, 1998. Editions Point d’Appui (Français)
* el sitio web de la Danis Bois Método (Inglès, Français et portugués) : http://www.cerap.org/
* un text de James Hillman en espagnol : http://homepage.mac.com/eeskenazi/azur.html
* James Hillman : SpD94a La Cultura y el Alma Animal. Trans. Maria J. Bustamante. Caracas: Fundacion Polar. Engl. D97d.

(Para más propuestas, me contacto a través de este blog después 5 enero 2009 :-)

Some good news for us all!

2008-12-14T02:48:00.001+01:00

Yes! We are less greedy than a few years ago!
Africa will take a nice deep breath from the 1 billion € the EU agreed to give!
More info here : one.org

Photo (CC) par Michael Sarver

Liste of urgent actions!

2008-11-27T13:06:00.005+01:00

Dear friends, I know most of us suffer from info pollution and some even from Cognitive Overflow Syndrome (info here).
I have read about info saturation before but I heard about this term (C.O.S.) in the very impressing performance of Thomas Ferrand in our festival "Danse d'éxistence, Danse de Résistance"...
So while our festival is still going and I'm dancing tonight Apertae by Bernardo Montet, I urge you to participate in the following actions, without having to go to many places :
1. http://www.timetolead.eu/
2. Ask Obama!

And some good news : marine conservation in Hong Kong

Photo (CC) by kelvin255

The Good Consumer

2008-11-27T12:53:00.001+01:00

Work less, gain less, live better...
November 29 : BUY NOTHING DAY!

JFK Calls for a Revolution

2008-10-29T10:08:00.001+01:00

We can do it JA???

Promises & poverty!

2008-10-22T11:32:00.005+02:00

Excerpt from the avaaz site :

This week world leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Here, all focus is on a multi billion dollar bailouts of financial institutions and the real untold scandal -- global poverty -- risks being forgotten. France, Canada, and Italy are threatening to slash their development aid budgets and break their promise to assign a mere 0.7 % of national income to the world's poorest. If these countries retract on commitments, others may follow -- it’s time to raise the alarm.

Click here to sign for a better world : poverty_promise_breakers

Photo (CC) by foko_madagascar

Sharing dance in Madagascar

2008-10-14T22:20:00.001+02:00

My first week in Antananarivo in Madagscar is full of creativity and emotion...
I'm teaching young dancers from the island and a few from the African continent and it's a very warm hearted group. We dive into body consciousness together and then, progressively, into high energy mouvement behaviour...There follows an improvisation course and they make me dream away!
The workshop was organized by the Cultural Center Albert Camus and the CCNT.
Bernardo Montet will join me to finish the workshop together but also to dance his solo "Batracien, l'après-midi"!
Of course there are also "negative" emotions when seeing the poverty in the city...Apparently there are 25000 homeless here... :-(
How much energy and food do we spend, and on what?
Living conscioussly becomes more & more urgent, but I also keep receiving good news!
The world is changing! Keep creating your utopias!

My news...

2008-09-26T21:15:00.010+02:00

This past week I spent time in Paris for a conference named Body in Action and for dance classes.
Body in Action was organized by the College de France and it was dedicated to the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. I did not attend the second day for it was very dense and most information concerned neurophysiology research : my expertise was far from enough! One participants, Anne Fagot-Largeault was very inspiring though, and suggested concepts that reminded me of the Integral Theory! And then I took a few dance classes : from release technique to fusion-modern jazz! Ah...dancing!!! Poverty, humanity, richness, spirit was there in Paris...Like everywhere else...There's work to be done!

Photo (CC) by : skinr

Save food quality in USA

2008-09-26T21:01:00.003+02:00

For my American friends : Here's a petition to stop quality degradation of food & water in the world! Petition : http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=184

And if you want to be always well informed on 21st century health matters check this site and sign up for their newsletter : http://www.naturalnews.com/Index.html

Photo (CC) by : kool_skatkat

Back to basics!!!

2008-09-10T20:38:00.004+02:00

The basics for life (?) : Water, oxygen, and love

"You're not sick; you're thirsty. Don't treat thirst with medication..."

Drink water! Of course too much water is dangerous also, but usualy we're chronically thirsty...Read interview here : naturalnews.com
and find out why "it's fair to say that pharmaceuticals, as packaged by modern medicine, are the third leading cause of death in this country"

Photo (CC) par malla_mi

Finality Over Fairness!

2008-09-10T11:15:00.005+02:00

EXECUTION DATE SET: SEPTEMBER 23 AT 7 p.m.

Protect Life & take action : Amnesty USA

Human rights issues do not concern only China!

Good news from Dell!

2008-09-02T11:56:00.002+02:00

This blog began as a place for good news : proof that humans are able to create newtopias without being trapped by local fatalisms and misery...
Here you have an article of how even big companies like Dell can make a difference : Dell for a greener planet!

Photo (CC) by : danielguip

love your sun?

2008-08-21T12:22:00.003+02:00

Ok! I'm back from Greece, tanned and i will never use sunscreen again!
I do not pretend to know why sunscreens are not "good" but my intuition and the following article made me decide so : organic lifestyle magazine

Vacation!

2008-07-18T17:39:00.002+02:00

By tomorrow I will be in Nikiti and occasionally in Thessaloniki, in Greece.
I wish you wonderful vacations full of inspiration!

Rape camps : stop them!

2008-07-17T12:19:00.001+02:00

It's really urgent!
Let's give up a few $ to save thousands of women from Sudan's rape camps!
See info here : avaaz darfur
What is human in the 21st century?

Photo (CC) by : par hdptcar

beautiful...

2008-07-02T21:22:00.006+02:00

I just saw the Boto : beautiful creatures living in the Amazon river...
I had to go straight and pay at the WWF site. No more "no money" excuses...
We define our priorities...Last year I prefered to give to survival-international.
And these "beautiful people" Zo'e who love life and work only 2 hours a day!
Human cultural diversity needs some of our attention!
LIFE above the urge to dominate!
Yes I know : domination has been a part of LIFE's "game"...
You decide....

Global Action for Zimbabwe

2008-06-26T10:05:00.002+02:00

As violence escalates due to President Mugabe's ruthless efforts to stay in power and crush the opposition, hope fades for free and fair elections. The people of Zimbabwe are suffering from intimidation, torture and other horrific abuses such as rape and food deprivation.

Sign now to condemn the acts of violence occurring in Zimbabwe: Petition

Photo (CC) by : babasteve

Support this greenpeace activist!

2008-06-23T17:56:00.003+02:00

Tokyo, Japan — Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence.

Click here to sign : Greenpeace petition

Photo (CC) by : NOAA via pingnews

1000 pieces...

2008-06-20T19:37:00.003+02:00

This weekend I participate as a dancer in the improvisations of 1000 Morceaux collective (musicians).
It is...midsummer night dreamscapes!
Musical & dance experimentations in the Chapelle St. Anne in Tours.
Enjoy the space!

Photo by : Mauricio Cordero

SAVE the Greek landscape!

2008-05-06T00:11:00.003+02:00

The Greek government is trying to pass a Spatial Plan for Tourism, under which big real estate projects throughout the country, will be subsided by state funding. Already, hedge funds are buying big pieces of land especially in virgin Aegean islands in order to make use of this Spatial Plan regulations. Greece is facing the threat of repeating the spanish epxerience. We fear that if this Spatial Plan is signed the Aegean islands will be savagly urbanised sucrificing their landscape, biodiversity and cultural heritage.
Please help us block this Spatial Plan for Tourism by signing the petition: http://www.diktioaigaiou.gr/contents/chorotaxiko_eng.php?lang=2

Thank you in advance!
Kriton Arsenis
Regional Planner- Economist MA Harvard
Head of Environmental Policy and the Aegean
ELLINIKI ETAIRIASociety for the Environment and the Heritage of Greece
28 Tripodon st., 10558, Plaka, AthensTel: ++30 210 3225245 (9)Fax: ++30 210 3225240E-mail:

aigaio@ellinikietairia.gr

www.diktioaigaiou.gr

www.ellinikietairia.gr

Photo (CC) by : StrudelMonkey

tears for love?

2008-05-03T21:27:00.006+02:00

"The woman who is separated from her lover spins at the spinning wheel.
The Baghdad of the body rises with its towers and gates.
Inside it the palace of intelligence has been built.

The wheel of ecstatic love turns around in the sky,
and the spinning seat is made of the sapphires of work and study.

This woman weaves threads that are subtle,
and the intensity of her praise makes them fine!

Kabir says: I am that woman.
I am weaving the linen of day night and day.

When my Lover comes and I feel his feet,
the gift I will have for him is tears."

KABIR (Ecstatic Poems Versions by Robert Bly)

Photo (CC) by : by Rickydavid

radio in my head...

2008-04-30T00:47:00.000+02:00

Joy of the sparrow!

2008-04-17T00:29:00.007+02:00

I just wanted to share with you my joy of feeding the sparrows at Montparnasse station in Paris!
This reminds me what I read today in the brochure of my car's insurance company, which is awesome : they had an article about boredom and it said that it is important for our growth and wellbeing!!! Plus, that it is a characteristic of Latin and Mediterranean that is being chased away by the frenzy of Anglo-Saxon speed culture! Hmmm...was that French people speaking? ;-)

Photo (CC) by : par pasotraspaso

Human life?

2008-03-29T23:51:00.003+01:00

Spirit, intelligence, or existential genius - call it as you wish - may be expressed in very complex ways...Rationalizing and interpreting another culture by standards that only express the dominant culture does not seem to guaranty anything else than opinion-ism or narcissistic supremacy...Bla, bla, bla...If you "love" humans here is one of today's suggestion to act : Bushmen in danger

Photo (CC) by CharlesFred

Don't burn food: biofuels standards now!

2008-03-28T09:21:00.003+01:00

Increased demand for biofuels is driving up food prices and accelerating climate change, as rainforests are destroyed to grow fuel. But with strong global sustainability standards, we can ensure that biofuels help, rather than hurt.

This weekend, the twenty biggest economies, responsible for more than 75% of the world's carbon emissions, will meet in Chiba, Japan to begin the climate change discussions leading up to the G8 summit this summer. Before the summit, let's send our leaders messages urging the adoption of global standards for biofuels.

Sending your message is easy. Click HERE : AVAAZ!
Photo (CC) by : robseattle

I love China!

2008-03-22T16:12:00.005+01:00

I love China
I love Tibet
I love signing for THEM : avaaz petition

Photo (CC) by : cromacom

Once more for the Seals!!!

2008-03-17T21:08:00.004+01:00

Here's one petition to protect the seals from human unconsciousness : humane society

By the way : I will be in Martinique for about a week! I'm going to visit my love!
I'm leaving tomorrow.
For those of you who speak french or greek check my french-greek blog for more news : xenosoma

Enjoy the space between thoughts...

Gold economy? Cow's milk is for baby cows...

2008-03-10T12:50:00.003+01:00

I don't trust milk...But hey! It's a huge economy based on it! Let people make their "living"...
For the rebels, check here : article.

Photo (CC) by : cromo

much to learn...

2008-03-09T02:05:00.002+01:00

I posted an excerpt from the Non Violent Communication book because we desperately need it...(See previous post)
I keep seeing suffering around me because of lack of consciousness in the intersubjective communication. I don't only see it around me, I experience it in my private life also...We still have much to learn...

Let's keep breathing....

Photo (CC) by : Dhammza

Center for Nonviolent Communication?

2008-03-05T00:24:00.006+01:00

This book is a treasure for human suffering! Here's an excerpt :
"what evidence is there that we have adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full empathic understanding, they will experience a sense of relief. We can become aware of this phenomenon by noticing a corresponding release of tension in our own body. A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking..."

Non violent communication / A language of compassion, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Photo by : Lastexit / Vanessa

the world is changing...

2008-02-23T01:34:00.005+01:00

They did it!
They apologized to the australian aboriginals...
I had tears in my eyes reading the speech : Here

Photo by : BotheredByBees (Flickr)

awake & dreaming

2008-02-23T00:34:00.003+01:00

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart . . .
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Dance in Marrakech...

2008-02-19T14:31:00.006+01:00

Between sensorial intelligence, undefined spirituality and dance audacity the fencer moves...
Contact and love through dance...
I will be performing Tsolias in the Marrakech dance festival : On Marche 2008...

Fencer with no sword...

2008-01-24T05:56:00.000+01:00

Fighting against the invisible...in the centre of Tours.
Occasionaly accepting the flow of things,
the Fencer keeps asking :
who is the Self?

He will be asking this question also in Marrakech the 25th of January.

Photo by : A.M.Pernot

New year

2008-01-01T16:31:00.000+01:00

According to the dominant culture it's 2008!!!
With an urge for Togetherness (love?)
I wish you lots of extraordinary stimulation
to the multiplicity of your local intelligence!!!
(the non local intelligence doesn't bother much...).
Big Mind & Big Heart!
Kisses!

PS: The picture is Creative Commons but I lost the author's info : Sorry!

absence or presence

2007-10-12T23:35:00.000+02:00

have not been posting for a while...
time management demands attention...
plus!when you're in love time flies!!!
priorities : love, consciousness, dance (transmission)
I'm studying integral theories for the moment and wishing you wisdom!!!

(Pic from my project with a primary school...)

Tours dances by the river

2007-09-10T23:49:00.000+02:00

the body "is" a dancer
silence sculpts the impulses
consciousness arises
self "fights" technique and dramaturgy
frustration occupies the breath
consciousness arises

Photo by : Jean-Marie Lelievre

up or down?

2007-08-22T12:02:00.000+02:00

ARE YOU AN ECOLOGIST, OR ECOFASCIST? UNSCRUPULOUS BUSINESSMAN OR SOMETHING ELSE?

urgencies...

2007-07-27T01:33:00.000+02:00

We touch each other
by being honestly what we are,
not by intentionally making contact.
Fritz Perls

radiohead street spirit

2007-07-20T01:34:00.000+02:00

dance imagine and be...

Live Earth party!

2007-07-05T12:25:00.000+02:00

Watch this page for info on my event!
I will try to reserve a bigger space with a large screen!
I'll post tonight (GMT+1) the details!
let's party for the earth!!!

teaching

2007-07-05T01:18:00.001+02:00

who am I to teach?
Who am I not?
I love teaching!
I love defining and redefining teaching - transmitting...
creating self
obeying the beauty of what arises each moment...
my students and my...indigo people keep surprising us!

love...

2007-07-05T00:00:00.000+02:00

my beautiful friends
are creating beautiful things
because they ask themeselves beautiful questions : love???
Check out their music / dance...
may the space be with you!

Absence?

2007-06-23T14:25:00.000+02:00

Yes...
I've been busy a lot lately...
The Môm'Arts festival in CCNT, La Marche des Anges organization etc...
Being in love made me disappear a bit more than usual : intensity transforms being...
Ah....Redefining the World and the Self through the Link of Love...
Some people are writing university thesis on subjects like this...and some others observe the birds flying...and some others...
Another reason I did not update my blogs was the fact that my internet provider has technical problems for 5 weeks now!
For info : come party with us on june 29th at the CCNT at 19H!
First there is a performance created by two dancers of the CCNT and then party time!
Keep dancing : space loves you!

Vitality

2007-04-24T23:27:00.000+02:00

I started this blog with the pretext that it had to be a good news blog...
A blog that gives you (and me!) inspiration to change the world (ourselves...)
Here are some videos that are full of vitality and tenderness without big concepts...
free Hugs campaign!
Evolution of Dance
Otters in Love
World's Strongest Dad

I love tuna fish!

2007-04-24T22:46:00.000+02:00

Hello fish lovers!
Let's protect our mediterranean tuna fish!
Send a WWF email to politicians (you just need to add your name and email...)
Protect now...

Photo copyright : M. San Felix / Greenpeace

Earth day : how much???

2007-04-24T22:24:00.000+02:00

Let's breath less!
But...breathe better!
Just "sign" the petition...

Ah...my favourite magazine strikes again!

2007-04-24T11:53:00.000+02:00

My very favourite magazine that I discovered in North Carolina at my college's library has not left my curiosity since 1989 : The Sun magazine!
This months interview is extremely inspiring in many areas of life. It is with Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue and here's an excerpt :

"One of the great problems in postmodern culture is the lack
of true conversation. What we have is more a series of intersecting
monologues. There has been no real conversation between
the West and Islam. We need one badly, for it is conversation
that breaks down caricature and allows bridges to be built.
The tragedy of the West at the moment is that all interaction
seems to take place across one bridge: economics."
John O’Donohue

There is a 3 page excerpt on the magazine's website : http://www.thesunmagazine.org/376_O'Donohue.pdf

prayers...

2007-04-20T19:17:00.000+02:00

I onced asked a Jesuit priest
what was the best short prayer he knew.

He said "Fuck it", as in "Fuck it; it's in God's hands."

Anthony Hopkins

Image : John Ogilvie (jesuit) disemboweled : Engraving by Mathias Tanner

drink green tea!

2007-04-20T00:31:00.000+02:00

being careful with HIV is important!
Drinking green tea might be as important?
Check here!

photo copyleft : Niklas

tomorrow in Martinique

2007-04-06T00:02:00.000+02:00

I will be in Martinique by april 9th to 15th. I will be teaching with Bernardo Montet a contemporary dance workshop. Enjoy the space!

souls in pain

2007-04-04T20:08:00.000+02:00

Petitions seem to work...
Let's click!
Some 400 souls experience
some sort of hell for the sake of "our" security
or for the sake of the dirty underwear
of the world's governments!
Click them free!

Photo: avaaz.org

transmitting and receiving...

2007-04-04T19:50:00.000+02:00

I start doubting whether "love" is an objective for local consciousness...
Even people with intuition about how creating this "flux of being" don't invest in it often "enough"...
What is enough, right?
Pain is investing our intestines for further consciousness matters...
May the space be with us...

ah...me body...

2007-03-22T18:25:00.000+01:00

Why we don’t die

In late September many voices
Tell you you will die.
That leaf says it. That coolness.
All of them are right.

(Rest of the poem HERE!)

more democracy, less beatings...

2007-03-21T00:30:00.000+01:00

democracy is a utopia : not only in Zimbabwe...
Everywhere!
It's like human posture : it is a life time commitement to constant readjustement...
We're heading towards democracy.
We're not there yet.
If you like petitions like I do, go here : AVAAZ

more good news!

2007-03-20T00:04:00.000+01:00

humans have the power to change the world...
Although we're loosing overall forest presence around the world some countries managed to increase forest areas!

See here : ens.newswire

Photo Credit:US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Act for Special Procedures: A Global Petition

2007-03-19T23:52:00.000+01:00

“The Special Procedures give a voice to the voiceless victims of abuses.”

-Kofi Annan, 19 June 2006

Despite the clear need for the Human Rights Council to strengthen the Special Procedures, several states are instead proposing changes that would cripple the ability of Special Procedures to promote and protect human rights effectively.

Can we make a difference by signing a petition? Try here : Amnesty.ca

Photo Credit:US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

ΕΥΡΩΠΗ or the Myth of Europe

2007-03-13T22:52:00.000+01:00

I have to assume this role...
Am I being pretentious?
Representing the myth of Europe through a dancer's body?
Plus, 23 children & teenagers singing and acting around me?
A cultural alliance of european cities will be the pretext for this attempt. The 16th of March in the city hall of Tours.
I will test my capacity to per - form and also my capacity to receive and transmit at the same time...
Receive what? Transmit what?
What does an all encompassing space do naturally?
Who talked about love?
And She...continues inspiring me...Ah....

replacing fear with love : a science...

2007-03-10T18:12:00.000+01:00

”Fear is one of the greatest problems in life.

A mind that is caught in fear lives in confusion, in conflict,

and therefore must be violent, distorted and aggressive”,

Krishnamurti

petrol : the end...

2007-03-10T00:56:00.000+01:00

100 Things You Can Do To Prepare Yourself for Peak Oil

avoid plastic in food!

2007-03-10T00:47:00.000+01:00

I have seen friends of mine drinking hot tea
in plastic cups like those on the picture!
the cups were deformed from the heat and
some chemical released in the liquid...Be careful...
Check on the site of organic consumers : info

By the way I'm still searching for the best solution for pure drinking water... Any suggestions?

MERCI...

2007-03-09T23:25:00.000+01:00

Friday, March 9th 2007 :

what a magnificent day!

I received in advance my birthday present...

Thank you....

the world is changing!

2007-03-08T23:59:00.000+01:00

What separates us?
Who separates us?
Where do we focus to?
Is there fear in the room?
Or is there love in the room?
It's up to us...

Watch this video : stop_the_clash

Photo by : mitsos from space

measuring against gravity

2007-03-01T18:12:00.000+01:00

sadness twisting the organs : limiting the flow of the state of love

we spend more time in fear rather than being in a state of love...

Love "is" creation : receiving and transmitting at the same time.

One day we will make it...

keep "putting pieces" of love everywhere you breathe...

Trans - Chorégraphique 2!

2007-02-19T18:37:00.000+01:00

So now it's our turn for a festival : Transchorégraphique 2!
20-24 of February 2007 in Tours / France.
The following artists will challenge our artistic orientations :

Sophiatou Kossoko, Ivo Dimchev, Christophe Fiat, Vincent Dupont, Grand Magasin, & Tal Beit-Halachmi

For more info (in french) look here : CCNT

(Same as for Brest : If you are in London there are low cost flights to Tours with Ryan air!)

Utne : far out!

2007-02-12T17:42:00.001+01:00

I rediscovered a favorite magazine : Utne / understanding the next Evolution...
The issue I bought(November 2005) had "Embrace your feminine" as cover story.Here's an excerpt:

Social analyst and ecopsychology pioneer Theodore Roszak says, "As women come more and more into their own, the qualities that we have long assumed were exclusively and stereotypically theirs will come to be more widely acknowledged. Institutions now grounded in harshly competitive market values will give more and more place to care, cooperation, and mutual aid. In the century to come, we can expect our cultural style to be steadily reshaped by the other half of the human race."
In fact, this reshaping has already begun. We find hope in all the ways women are stepping into leadership all over the world and in the men who are evolved enough to honor the feminine in themselves as well as in women.
Nina Utne

The Antipodes?

2007-02-11T01:26:00.000+01:00

this time we don't participate in that Festival...
It's a pity : they have very interesting performances!
If you are in London there are low cost flights to Brest with Ryan air!

Check the programme here : Antipodes (in French)...

kamala dancing!

2007-02-11T00:57:00.000+01:00

As I said before :
I knew that Kamala is a great dancer but seeing that video makes me want to see more!!!
She will be dancing the 6th & 7th of March
at Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London!

Plus, she will be teaching in a workshop for the company.
Here's the info:
Saturday 24th February
Technique and Repertory (advanced/professional level)
generated from contemporary dance and the Indian classical dance form Bharata Natyam. Shobana Jeyasingh has created a uniquely contemporary language: the work is also informed by the diverse movement cultures that her dancers bring into the studio (Capoeira and Kalari, among others). SJDC's Company Workshops provide an exciting opportunity for advanced and professional level dancers to experience SJDC training techniques and learn the new repertoire Faultline.
Company dancers Saju Hari and Kamala Devam will lead the workshops.

DATE: Saturday 24th February
TIME: 11am-1pm
FEE: £11/ £9 concesssions (book in advance or pay on the door)

AT: Islington Arts Factory
2 Parkhurst Street Holloway
London
N7 0SF

Contact Zoé on 0207 697 4444 or zoe(at)shobanajeyasingh.co.uk

Enjoy the space!

Let's insist!

2007-02-05T12:18:00.000+01:00

Ok!It's time for breakfast!
(And if you wish for action click HERE!)

First day today....

2007-01-24T01:24:00.000+01:00

of the contemporary dance festival of Marrakech...
We started by...walking all together : hip hop dancers and contemporary dancers...Of course it was not ordinary walking. It was a dancer's walk : for some it was an act of embodiment, for some a political statement, for others an urgency to exist, for others..and others...As I said before : human posture is not a right. It is a privilege generated by consciousness...
May the dance be with us!

Photo credit : Amélie Rouseau

More O. More...

2007-01-18T00:28:00.000+01:00

Can trance heal?

We'll have to deal with that question again soon...
O.More will be performed in it's place of birth
the 22nd & 24th of January...

Anybody for a trip to Marrakech Dance festival?

let's take care of each other...

2007-01-17T14:06:00.000+01:00

They want soooo much money to afford their huge villas....
It seems that signing petitions on the web works : so let's click!

MSF URGES NOVARTIS TO DROP ITS CASE AGAINST THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT
"Tell Novartis it has no business standing in the way of people's right to access the medicines they need. Sign on and urge Novartis to DROP THE CASE against the Indian government."

Photo credit : Julie Rémy

O.More to Marrakech

2007-01-12T01:34:00.000+01:00

We're going to dance Bernardo Montet's O.More again!
The 22 & 24 of january in Marrakech/Morocco during the :
"On marche" ... 2nd Choreographic Meeting of Marrakech
The picture is from Taoufiq Izeddiou's Clandestins, Cœurs sans corps. For more info see on this link: On Marche (in french)

War or Irak?

2007-01-10T10:10:00.000+01:00

I have the certainty that truth in politics
is as difficult to localise as truth in philosophy...
However, our fellow U.S. Americans seem to be fed up
with the war in Irak.
Maybe this petition could help them get the message to their Leader ...

Photo by : Daquella manera

Permission to sleep?

2007-01-02T22:51:00.000+01:00

Are we taking care of our circadian rhythms?
There is an interesting discussion about it at Dadamo's forum :
circadian rhythms for type O's?
Although it's mainly about the O blood group,
it seems to concern all blood groups...

Dive into your dreams!

2007

2007-01-01T11:13:00.000+01:00

I wish us all
Love
Creativity
Wisdom
for earth's new pirouette
around this hot sun

Human posture...

2006-12-29T21:30:00.000+01:00

Human posture is not a right.

Human posture is a privilege.

Human posture needs daily attention.

Daily attention to be human...

six drrrrummers!

2006-12-28T18:22:00.000+01:00

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

Whose Christmas?

2006-12-18T23:24:00.000+01:00

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...

2006-12-14T19:17:00.000+01:00

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