Category: Dance/Performance
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For Vanessa
Crows From a single grain they have multiplied. When you look inthe eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things. They are anything byt refined. Or they fly out over the corn like pellets of black fire, like overlords. Crow is crow, you say? Drive…
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“Gooselanding”
What a hag is love What a crone With omens and past lives This mist must be her breath inescapably seeping into my days her womb laughing at my cut destiny at the rewrite of troy
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April 14th Performance Offering
DAIPANbutoh Collective Presents April 14th 7:30pm @ Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 Cost: $10 Experience a collaborative night of movement and music, the culmination of the 2-month DAIPANbutoh workshop series, “Emergence of the Deeper Self” Featuring: Solo by Consuelo Gonzalez Short films of SU-EN, Joan Laage,…
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Storm Warnings
The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What winds are walking overhead, what zone Of gray unrest is moving across the land, I leave the book upon a pillowed chair And walk from window to closed window, watching Boughs strain against the sky And think again, as often…
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Butoh Notes
“Fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundation of whatever sort of life we try to build” AA’s 12 by 12
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting, You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.…
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the impossibility of crows
the impossibility of crowsa solo dance performance by Vanessa Skantze with live sound by Joy Von Spain Teatro de la Psychomachia 1534 1st Ave S, Seattle (one block south of Safeco Field) in the Columbia Fire Building on the second floor April 6,7,13,14, 2012 8 pm $5-15 suggested donation-no one turned away for lack of…
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As We Pass
If I Die –Pablo Neruda If I die, survive me with such sheer force That you awaken the furies of the pallid and the cold, From south to south lift your indelible eyes, From sun to sun dream through your singing mouth, I don’t want your laughter or your steps to waver, I don’t want…
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For Ed
“Gamble everything for love… Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you… Rumi, from Say I Am
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Al’s Birthday Poem
Safe in their alabaster chambers, Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, Rafter of satin, and roof of stone. Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine, Babbles the bee in a solid ear: Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, Ah, what sagacity perished here! Grand…
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