Global Dance Project 2019

Global Dance Project 2019
MURMURATIONS

Opu and Buki
one is slow, one is fast

sound relation
pods and traffic
murmurations and proxemics
cryptic choreography

the edge is lost where we meet
between the vaporous sky and deep midnight sea

to share or not to share
why is the sky blue and the sea midnight


Research Materials
Francis Weller, Wild Edge of Sorrow (Video)

SIGN UP FOR WORKSHOPS:
Friday May 3, 2019 free workshop Bay Area Dance Week

May Murmurations and Proxemics Workshop at NOH Space

COMPASSIONS 2018

The heart must dare 
to be bold.






COMPASSIONS is a culmination of recent works created and performed by Mary Power, showing original dance, paintings, song, short dance films, and art installation "MotherPeaceMotherWar".

Guest Artists and collaborators include dance by Elaine Santos, masks by Bart Frescura, and reading from his latest book, I the Dragon, Richard Power.

Showtimes: 
7-8:30pm June 22, 
7-9:00pm June 23, 
7-8:30pm June 24


NOH Space 2840 Mariposa  SF CA

“All these moments and actions have their inner justification. Taken as a whole they reflect the feelings, the passion, or the state which we describe by the use of the one word love...Every passion is a complex of things experienced emotionally, it’s the sum total of a variety of different feelings, experiences, states. All these component parts are not only numerous and varied but they are also often contradictory. In love there is often hatred and scorn, and admiration, and indifference, and ecstasy, and prostration, and embarrassment, and brazenness, [addiction and betrayal].”--An Actor’s Handbook by Constantin Stanislavski

Mpowerdance Project MISSION

Mpowerdance Project Mission

The mission of Mpowerdance Project is to challenge the dominant human-centric view of our place in the natural world, using the interdisciplinary and interactive mediums of dance, art, film and performance. With skill, research, memory and experience, we deliver an encounter that resonates with the wonders found in the wild, exploring the mystery of unity in diversity and diversity in unity.

Mpowerdance Project and collaborators inspire and connect diverse audiences, both locally (San Francisco) and globally, through the GDP/Global Dance Project, an annual choreographic offering.

We encourage deepening relationship to life by respecting and increasing a relationship with the natural world—with balance, sustainability and innovation through dance art and performance and by respecting boundaries and freedom, keeping informed of community and world events.

Global Dance Project 2018: Move With Dual Harmonics

Global Dance Project 2018: Move With Dual Harmonics











two NOT two

to be or knot

discover the band of peace

carry the world
solace
water is life
great blue a-day-day


RESOURCES
WISDOM KEEPER Abd'el Hakim Awyan

Global Dance Project 2017: Bennu Footprints

Global Dance Project 2017: Bennu Footprints



Rise in brilliance newborn dancers
children of the ancients
this is the year of magic

Rise in brilliance
twins of symmetry aligning out of chaos
this is the year of triplets
skipping 5-7 beats again like brand new

Comedy of errors baby
slapstick, stooge 1-2-3, zen stick wake up
fool give up upside down

winds of change hummin'
shakin' like a leaf on a tree
rise Bennu rise
rock the dance from the Benben
rock the dance from the primeval mound

RESOURCE MATERIAL
The Project Gutenberg:  The History of Antiquity from the German of Max Duncker (1877) six volumes

Saving The Indigenous Soul: an interview with Martin Prechtel (2001)

Cosmos: The World Set Free with Neil deGrasse Tyson 

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: Original Screenplay by J.K.Rowling (2016) 

Music: The New International Sound (feat. M.I.A.)
 

Current Backdrop:

GLOBAL DANCE PROJECT 2016: Amazonia, Animals Dance Humans Alive

GLOBAL DANCE PROJECT 2016:  Amazonia
Animals Dance Humans Alive
          We are not alone.

Choreographic Resources:

GDP 2016 Reading List
Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Ancient Future by Richard Power (2015) 
This Strange Wilderness:  The Life and Art of John James Audubon by Nancy Plain (2015) 
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall (1999) 
Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal (2016)


Media
Cosmos: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerro

Music for GDP 2016



PROXEMICS
concepts by Edward T. Hall, Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan

MURMURATIONS

Audio: Mpowerdance Coyote Choir (2013)





How to play in the GDP.

evaWave

evaWave  
2015 OCTOBER 17 and 18
8:00p.m.
NOHspace Theatre
2840 Mariposa St.






















evaWave celebrates the binding of life and the tender wisdon that moves us toward healing and balance. evaWave is a daring adventure...Read full Press Release

Song For Our Age
     day follows night
     from shadow
     a play of light
     aaah hooo aahm
     dweller of the vast
     dweller of the deep
     keeper of eternal rhythm
     aaah hooo aahm
     anthropocene age
     anthropo  scene
     DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT

Resource List
Writers:
The Gift (2007) by Lewis Hyde
Yoga of Primal Reality (2013) by Richard Power 
An Ocean Garden (2014) by Josie Iselin
Long Walk to Freedom (1995) by Nelson Mandela
Leib/Bread (2014) by Evelin Ilves


Artists:
Genesis by Sebastião Salgado  
Vissicitudes by Jason De Caires Taylor 
A Little Vulnerability by Roxanne Swentzell

Film:
Cosmos (Episode 4) with Neil deGrasse Tyson 
Girl Rising director Richard Robbins 
 

Jason deCaires Taylor: Vissicitudes