Category Archives: dance

Persephones Descent

Short surreal film ritual featuring Reese miller as Persephone/the Kore, and me as Hades

Photographs of Persephone ( see a former blog post of the photographs of Reese as the Kore before the descent and becoming Queen of the underworld)

Pirimi Gördüm

👁️✨ P i r i m i. G ö r d ü m ✨👁️

🔥 Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,
but genuine pain doesn’t live in the spirit,
nor in the air, nor in our lives,
nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.
The genuine pain that keeps everything awake
is a tiny, infinite burn
on the innocent eyes of other systems. 🔥

~Federico García Lorca

Bugün ben pirimi gördüm
Pirin esigi güldür gül
Egildim yüzümü sürdüm
Pir'in etegi güldür gül
Gülden terazi yaparlar
Gülü gül ile tartarlar
Gül alirlar gül satarlar
Çarsi pazari güldür gül
Gülden degirmeni döner
Nun ile gül ügünür
Akar arki döner arki
Bendi pinari güldür gül
Gel ha, gel ha, can
Hatayi dostun nefesi güldür
gül
Su öten garip bülbülün
Derdi figani güldür gül

Written by Fuat Talay & Mads Nordheim

Music by Fuat Talay & Mashti
Today I saw my pir
The pir's threshold is a rose, 
a rose
I bent down and put my face on it 
The pir's skirt is a rose, 
a rose 
They make scales from roses
 They weigh roses with roses 
They buy roses, 
they sell roses 
The bazaar is a rose, 
a rose 
The mill turns from roses 
The rose whirls with Nun
 The wheel of the stream turns 
The spring of the dam is a rose, 
a rose
Come, come, come, my soul
 The breath of the friend 
who made a mistake is a rose, 
a rose 
The strange nightingale that sings
The trouble of the lament is a rose, 
a rose

Going In

Embodied Poesis

Improv dance by BlissNinja /Charleen Johnston

Music by Human Experience/Kat Factor/Katya Rose

🔥Going In🔥

“When we dance, we wake up, we get down and juicy with ourselves, we have fun and forget all the heavy shit we carry around. In the dance we get real, get free, get over ourselves. Movement kicks ass. When you truly surrender to your own rhythm, you look so cool, so mysterious, so seductive— the way you deep down really want to look but don’t trust that you do.”

Gabrielle Roth, Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom