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

Driving to Morocco...

I'm leaving Sunday at midnight with François by car to Marrakech!
I will get to see my beloved Ahlam(!) and of course the Dance festival that Anania dance company (see photo) organizes for the first time in Morocco!
François will help with the stage management and I will do some filming. I'll be back around the 30th.
See info HERE!


Photo : Hassan Hajaj, asst. Abdel Benbadreyef

Mother...Christmas?

That "father Christmas" story irritates me:
let's stop treating children as if they’re idiots...
We all know secretly that Father Christmas today is a big money making concept and nothing else (...anymore!).
My girlfriend's daughter leaves in Morocco and is traditionally Moslem but is becoming crazy about Santa Claus and "his"...presents.
My tradition is Greek orthodox and although I do not adhere to my church (or any other!) I'm conscious that my moral background is based on that tradition...
For me S. Claus symbolizes today the spoiling of western kids but also the need for warm hearted spirituality. Unfortunately buying and selling toys has nothing to do with warm heartedness...And religion usually separates people. Especially when certain toys are being manufactured by...kids for minimal salaries.

Let's create new myths and leave ancient saints alone!
Let's teach children to give the present of life to disappearing animals or give them the present of saving energy...
Above all let's respect children and find ways to stimulate their intelligence without spoiling them.

An excerpt from an interview with Patti Smith in The Sun Magazine :

Patti Smith : It hasn’t always been this bad in Washington. I remember
that when Jimmy Carter was president, he actually inspired
me. He asked the American people to sacrifice. He asked us to
bring down our thermostats, to use less energy, to buy fewer
material things. He asked us to strip away a lot of what we
didn’t need and in that way to help our environment. He also
asked us to develop ourselves spiritually and mentally.
But what happened is that people found his requests offensive;
they didn’t want to sacrifice. Then Ronald Reagan
said to the people — and I’ll never forget this — he said that
American children deserve a bicycle in every garage. He wasn’t
talking about a chicken in every pot, or an education for every
child. He was saying that we deserve certain material possessions.
That made a big impression on me. All the way through
the Clinton era, people embraced this idea that we deserve
certain material things, that our children have to have them,
and if they don’t have them, then they’re deprived. This has
really hurt our country, the fabric of ourselves, our network
as human beings.
Greg King: After 9/11, George W. Bush told Americans to go
to Disney World, to keep buying things..."

The Mafia wants our food!!!

Friends of the Earth International Chair Meena Raman said in Hong Kong : "The WTO should not force anybody to eat genetically modified foods. The WTO is the wrong place to be deciding what we eat and how we protect our environment. It is time for the WTO to get its hands off our food! "
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Music or...music industry???

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Beautiful mix...

Here
you can download a beautiful,
moody mix by DJ Snej!
To be enjoyed by the river,
by the sea,
by the fire....
Welcome the winter!

Whales need us...or we need whales?

With a few
clicks
you can
add
your voice
against
whale hunting
from our japanese friends.
Click here : OOO

Coupédécalé!

This week we rehearse for coupé-décalé.
Performances are December 2nd and 3d, at the Nouvel Olympia, in Tours.
Pop sounds from Eran Zur, live drawings from Tamar Getter, costumes by Rose-Marie Melka, texts of Lautreamont and Fassbinder, dancing from Tal, Bernardo, Marc and me...


Photo : Guy Delahaye

today : sensitivity matters...

My first 4 day seminar of
"Art, therapy and movement"!
Time to study again;
redefine;
ask new questions.
Altering space-time perception...
Communicating one's creation...
Re-evaluating silence...

May the space be with you ;-)

The body is an orphan...

Time, Space,
and...
BUTOH...
Danse matters :
with Kô Murobushi and Bernardo Montet!

No God (looks up)
No God (looks down)
You alone!

Daily workshops at the CCNT till Sunday the 27th

IF YOU LIKE COFFEE YOU PROBABLY LIKE SLAVES

Like "our" greek ancestors : in order to enjoy "DEMOCRACY" they exploited SLAVES...
Like ourselves : OXFAM link

<- photo copyright in the above link!

Workshop in CCNT...

I will be teaching a professional contemporary dance class in CCNT : November 7-10, 10:00 - 12:30 a.m.!