09/19/2024
BEAUTY EMERGING
this evening I finally saw Beauty. the 45 minute. dance piece. that I composed and collaberated with Choreographer Adrianna Thompson. and. Soul Skin Dance... all nine sections jperformed. by the whole company for the 1st time .. they have been here in NYC working on it for a month and i have been workiing on it for the past 6 months and it honstely was like havng a baby >>>>> with the choreoghrapher, the dancers and the costume designer and the lightng designer. ... we had a baby together ,.. and it was glorious ...Its really Adrianna's baby cos she was the catalyst brewing this up in her soul for the past 6 years with the viison and means to make this a reality working hard year after year round traveling all over the world as an elite teacher of gyrotonics whcih gives he rthe ability and opportunity to raise the funds to produce. and choreograph a new work annually on and with her dance company. Soul Skin.., ands that my friends is an incredible effort and accomplishmebnt by her to bring this to life she deserves all the credit and aq ccoolades in. the world for her efforts .., this past spring in April at the premiere of Chasing the Light a 12 minute soundtrack i created and colleberated on an independent film by Jaco Stryndom and iAlchemy Arts Collective ...we peformed the piece live after the screening in Joshua Tree at The Sanctuary .., it was there that Adrianna and ii fully connected about Beauty and made plans and discussed time lines to move forward with the new project and begi. creation ansd production of this sleeping dragon Beauty ... she impregnated me with the seed and her. vision ..and that baby grew inside of me . .,. i was laying the foundatiion for the futiure conjuring and.hammering this monolithic. creaation into shape slowly.. and with each track i i could see BEAUTY EMERGING in the ether ... radiatii. burns my eyes. i can not look away there in the darknesa .. out of thin air ... the muse dancing inside of my head and heart ,, mind body soirit as one ...and the flow sometimes. waS LIKE butter baby ... killing it with love . gliding and striding like a tiger .; fearless and free .. it was euphoric. it was hella good ... it was divine ... that warm fuzzy feeling when you are making commisoned art and loving the f**k out of it inspired. and shocked straight up amazed at the results of your work ,, the friuits of.labor golden honey love and .listenng to it over and over. again editing and fine tuning a and ya stil hear. new things in it as it takes on a life of its own ... and take forn a ride deep inside every time ... and the clock strikes midnight ... the witching hour ...and i cried. ...I aint too proud to say i was weeping ..;. tears of holy joy sitting there watchjing the dancers who are in the midst if their owncollective creative process and it was.FiRE its was good it was real good. ... itb was like hiw athetes feel after nall thjos eyears in. poreperaqtii. of winning a xchampionship. rising to the challenge and over coming all oppostii. and adversity.. it was like having abi0g beautiful baby .., this odyssey. had coe ti fruitiion ruitio. and.ni gibve thanx and count my blessings to be a part of this team and odsthsi bring something deeper and more expansive into the world than a great rock song which is mighty fine just different . .., working togather towards sometjing that is bigger than the sum iof its parts a master work that ahines brighter than the midnight sun in. the dead of desert sumnmer ..,. the silence and the wind at high noon .. we will be there soon ,, September 27th. Septembver 28th tMark Morris Dance Theater in NYC