SHARING AWAKENING ART

The 2013 program begins with

WEEKLY SHARING AWAKENING ART

Drawing from the source of Awakening Art, people of all ages and backgrounds and interest in intercultural creative dialogue through traditional and contemporary dance/movement studies, music, craft arts and fine arts, architectural design, environmental art, writing and poetics, performance art, media arts, contemplative arts, healing arts or InterArts are welcome to share together in four themes:

SUNDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2013

TWENTY-ONE MOMENTS OF STILLNESS

Stillness is an innate aspect of nature and way of being in the arts and religiosity of many traditions. In this session each person will guide her/his own movement practice. Beginning in a daily life posture, resting like a living tree or in a silent atmosphere yet still being alive in the context of the environment. Then staying or moving to a new posture in accord with the place, time, and conditions —– dwelling in twenty-one moments of stillness.

SUNDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2013

TRI HITA KARANA in ENVIRONMENTAL ART

To grow a vision of environmental art, one can study the Balinese principle of Tri Hita Karana – three elements that are the source of the cause of goodness or well-being which are: 1) concordance with other humans, 2) concordance with nature (space), and 3) concordance with God/the Source of Life. By placing and moving three small stones and two bamboo sticks, we will explore how our posture or movement forms space and conversely how the shape of the place affects our posture, movement or gesture. Then, create environmental compositions stemming from the principle of Tri Hita Karana.

Our practice on 10 February will be dedicated to the New Moon.

SUNDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2013

EMBODIED MOVEMENT RELIEF

Beginning with daily life walking, practicing awareness of place and space. From the soul of the foot, gesture arises as movement relief. Like the centuries-old engravings of nature temples, in time the presence of gesture can deepen. In natural composing attuned with the elements of the place, art can emerge as an offering – expressing awakening.

SUNDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2013

AWAKENING ART & RELIGIOSITY

The word religiosity stems from the Latin roots religâre, legêre and relegêre meaning to link together, to gather, and re-collect; while art, from ars, denotes a way of being and ar, to fit together or join elements into an aesthetic form. It is in this light that art is as ‘an offering’ emerging from a deepening of inner feeling. We will explore dance, chant, prayer, music, poetic recitation and ritual offerings as art that reflects the diversity of humankind’s manner of bowing or reverence for God/the Source of Life.