giving voice

this week, i’ve been learning ancient songs in a forgotten language with teatr zar and the pilpani family, barefoot in grotowski’s old apocalypsis room.

and this week, it’s been armenian lullabies from hasmik harutyunyan through the inside glass door of the church near the kino,

and meredith monk singing insect songs in the dusty old synagogue during a thunderstorm,

and tahrir singing of poems by hafiz from the vahdat ensemble, with perfect craft amidst iran’s banning of the female singing voice in public,

and jonathan hart makwaia on a grand piano with kind eyes, reminding us all to laugh and just try things,

and a lot of other people making and absorbing music, and stretching, and saying hello in different languages, and thinking about sound and the world.

creepy penguin

from the one and only benjamin fairfield

and,

updates in gratitude
(i’ve been adding links)

affirmation i’m where i need to be right now

” … we worked for a week in the city before we went to our forest, and of course Grotowski was there in the city too … every night they conducted something called a beehive. And I loved the sound of this beehive, and a night or two before we were supposed to go to the country I grabbed him by the collar, and I said, ‘Listen, this beehive thing, you know, I’d kind of like to participate in one, just instinctively I feel it would be something interesting.’ And he said, ‘Well, certainly, and in fact, why don’t you, with your group, lead a beehive instead of participating in one?’ And I got very nervous, you know, and I said, ‘Well, what is a beehive?’ And he said, ‘Well, a beehive is, at eight o’clock a hundred strangers come into a room.’ And I said, ‘Yes?’ And he said, ‘Yes, and then whatever happens is a beehive.’”

My Dinner with André

monday list

1. a business
2. potluch
3. pink dress
4. retirement
5. incognito
6. armenian lullabies
7. censorship
8. preparation
9. crest
10. three songs

god help the girl

highlights of the early morning:

dance break at a train station
(courtesy of ms. andy richards)

blu walls
(courtesy of mr. paul hoppe)

the illustrious O makes more waves with lydia
in one of my favorite cities

monday list

1. “cheat!”
2. shell grotto
3. hannah at the bay
4. oscar, the dancing queen
5. indian princess
6. mad hatter
7. henry & margaret
8. a bygone era
9. po polsku
10. dear,sister