it was a full weekend, but of wonderful things. i performed friday and saturday night; saw avatar; taught yoga; took a butoh workshop; went food shopping and made dinner with my hubby.
performing was fun, surprising and exhilarating! i performed to yma sumac, an amazing peruvian singer of the 50s and 60s who can sing in 4 octaves (sorry, mariah but she outdoes ya!). the name of my piece was "snake goddess" in which i did become a snake goddess. i not only had the white, butoh make up on, but something really broke out inside of me. i love it when my playful self comes out, along with my sensual, sexual self. what's even better is that it's so meshed and integrated together. that's what made it so fun!
i'm not going to go into everything i did but i have to share about the workshop for my own needs and for memory. we did this exercise which i absolutely adore. one person represents seaweed and the other represents the current. the seaweed keeps their feet grounded and eyes closed, while the current intentionally touches a part of the seaweed's body. then the seaweed reacts to it. as we really progressed into the exercise, the teacher had us add sound, instead of touching then words or text. the seaweed could now move about, reacting to the stimulus. when i was the seaweed, my current gave me the following words i remember so far:
red, sodium hydroxide
i wish i could remember the others but the images that came up were of hardness, coldness, like branches of a tree in the middle of the artic, but the color red. no leaves or life on this tree because of the cold. yet, my body was there in that space. i can picture it now in the middle of the arctic ocean, emerging as if it wants to escape, yearns for rescue and refuge. a lot of feelings/emotions come up around that image. wanting to move forward but there's fear. fear of what? the unknown? beauty can emerge from the darkness.
i'm going to end there....
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