Offering of Dance
βErol Josue, Choreographer and Dancer (2023)
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Offering of Dance
βErol Josue, Choreographer and Dancer (2023)
Life is death weβre lengthy at,
Death the hinge to life.
βEmily Dickinson, Letters (1863)
βI'm not telling them to be cool either. I'm playing hot jazz. I'm playing something where they can't sit still. Buddhists can't sit still. Taoists can't sit still. Nobody gonna sit still when I'm playing."
βSun Ra (1988)
But has he pitched a no-hitter on LSD yet?
08.08.2025 02:21 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pearl Primusβdancer, choreographer, anthropologist (1949)
20.06.2025 23:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Offering of Dance
20.06.2025 23:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Rest in Love, Peace and Power Sly Stone
πΆ My only weapon is my pen
And the frame of mind I'm in
I'm a songwriter, a poet
I'm a songwriter, yeah, a poetπΆ
America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
βAnaΓ―s Nin, The Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
Statue of Guru Rinpoche PadmasambhavaβNepal, 17th century. (Erik TΓΆrner, photographer)
23.05.2025 01:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βIn every direction, pacify and turn back all war and invasion by military forces.β
βGuru Rinpoche Padmasambhava
May the fourth be with you my friend
04.05.2025 18:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
βH. L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major (1916)
Alas I forgot to turn off my car when I went outside to take the video, and thus there wasnβt any original audio. His love grunts and love cries are piercing! οΏΌ
youtu.be/9LHMNxk8DqA?...
Offering of Dance
βSuzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell in "Metastaseis and Pithoprakta,β choreography by George Balanchine, music by Iannis Xenakis (1968)
La bohème
16.04.2025 22:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The nature of mind alone is the seed of everything;
Existence and enlightenment unfold from it.
It grants every form of accomplishment you wish.
To this mind, a wish-fulfilling jewel, I bow.
βSaraha
W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland (1933)
12.04.2025 01:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β¦the return of a lot of sweetempered gunpowdered didst unto dudst but it never stphruck your mudhead's obtundity (O hell, here comes our funeral! O pest, I'll miss the post!)β
βJames Joyce, Finnegans Wake
β¦impetiginous sore and pustules, by the auspices of that raven cloud, your shade, and by the auguries of rooks in parlament, death with every disaster, the dynamatisation of colleagues, the reducing of records to ashes, the levelling of all customs by blazesβ¦
12.04.2025 00:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil and fast for our feast, you with your dislocated reason, have cutely foretold, a jophet in your own absence, by blind poring upon your many scalds and burns and blistersβ¦
12.04.2025 00:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0βNo society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in the society.β
βJames Baldwin
Offering of Dance
βKatherine Dunham (Choreographer) and Vanoye Aikens in Le Jazz Hot (1952)
youtu.be/CvpnwVRNI5s?...
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01.04.2025 20:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β¦You could call me the jester of the creator.β
βSun Ra
β¦A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhereβ¦
01.04.2025 16:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βFirst of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything isβ¦
01.04.2025 16:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0βe. e. cummings, "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
01.04.2025 04:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β¦as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature.β
01.04.2025 04:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0