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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Seike Garden Performance

Posted by helisdance on August 24, 2012


Song Of The Reed
…I want a heart that is torn open with longing
so that I might share the pain of this love
Whoever has been parted from his source
longs to return to that state of union. Rumi

Leave a comment Posted in butoh, Dance/Performance, Uncategorized Tagged Helen Thorsen Seike Garden, Joan Lagge, Vannesa Skantze

Sept 8th Performance with Kaoru and Helen

Posted by helisdance on August 23, 2012

Give Me Ecstasy
Give me ecstacy, give me naked wonder, O my Creator!
Give birth to the Beloved in me, and let this Lover die!
let a thousand wranglings desires become one Love!
This ring of desire I wear is the seal of Solomon.
I know I have it only on loan, so I never take it off….
Rumi

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Fringe

Posted by helisdance on August 15, 2012

I Stand Alone

A Falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.
Two gulls drift slowly up the river.

Vulnerable while they ride the wind,
they coast and glide with ease.

Dew is heavy on the grass below,
the spider’s web is ready.

Heaven’s ways include the human:
among the sorrows, I stand alone.
Tu Fu 712-770

Leave a comment Posted in butoh, Dance/Performance, Uncategorized Tagged photo Ron Yeh, rehearsal for Higher Ground, the stunning Mary Cutrera

Everything 4 Everyone Festival

Posted by helisdance on August 11, 2012

We will be performing Supporting Occupy Seattle and radical political workshops tomorrow. -check out their website. Butoh processional begins at 2:30until 4:30

Leave a comment Posted in butoh, Dance/Performance, Uncategorized Tagged the beautiful Vanessa

Training Notes

Posted by helisdance on August 9, 2012

The human shape is a ghost
made of distraction and pain.
Sometimes pure light, sometimes cruel,
trying wildly to open,
this image tightly held within itself.

Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged photo Ron Yeh, the stunning Mary Cutrera

FRINGE BABY FRINGE

Posted by helisdance on August 5, 2012

Higher Ground part of the Seattle Fringe Festival. We will perform at West Hall on Capital Hill Thurs Sept 20th 6pm, Fri And Sat 7:30pm, Sunday 5pm. Ya all come!

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Posted by helisdance on August 2, 2012

Heart’s mirror clear reflects beyond fetter.
The
void stripped clean, innumerable worlds.
All things in their majesty, shadowed and seen there.
The single gleaming jewel: not witin, not without.
Hsuan Chueh (665-713)

Leave a comment Posted in butoh, Dance/Performance, Uncategorized Tagged Helen Thorsen, Mary Cutrera, photo Briana Jones, Shattercave

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