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... was most impressed with the community work/play of KsambDance troupe ... witnessed their summer presentation To The Heart ...  ... checked out their video Be Lonley - a response to "Covid news spread and restrictions became increasingly strident, KSAMB Dance Company thought, WE MUST KEEP DANCING!" ...  ... they reached out inviting my participation on one of their regularly scheduled Wild Card Movement Friday gatherings at Saskatoon City Hall Square ... witnessed their October 30th special edition, with video projections and audio by Miki and Nicole ...  ...replied "Wonderful work! All elements: sheets, light, projections, sound and playing with space. The elements, especially the gentle wind conspired to create a flowing free like comfortable disturbance of shadows, cocoons, wings, inner-outer spirits and wrappings of careful protection to struggles and strangulations. Fleeting surfaces capturing airy memory places ... nice “collaborateurs” ... my question is doe

Participated in ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts / 2nd Student Festival (Online) Monday - Sunday, 13 - 19 July 2020 Here is AeRan’s take as she was invited to co-host the Korean on-line after show discussion. Her primary role was translator for Director Ha Kyounghwa of the Korean show Desire  and provide additional commentary. Upon watching and reflecting on the show she wrote the following text. Desire : corporeal expressions especially those created by the Korean body and Korean movement to tell the story of Medea. It was interesting to see the combination of Korean body verses greek mythology. To relate to the theme of the festival Home: Greek mythology is home or mother of theatre and the Korean body is the local home of where the actors are trained. In addition, according to what the director indicated, she utilized sources from Stanislavsky, considered to be the father of an actors theatre training. In this respect, the theme Home brings another

My colleagues put this together ... thanks to all with special thanks to Ryan ... many ventured into the basement drama room in the last days reaching out with heartfelt connection ... was so happy for that last week of face-to-face ...   ... the wonderful admin staff Renae, Sharon & Lana who were always there with joyous smiles, courtesy, diligence and loyalty sent this beautiful e-mail announcement to the system ... the e-mails and texts came ... each one was cherished ... colleagues posted touching tributes ... FB filled my soul with gracious comments ... reread then all ...  amazing ... was so lucky to have absolutely the most incredible students ... emotionally overwhelming ... wanted to respond to each ... tell them they had enriched my life ... the hidden secret is the student teaches the teacher ... THANK YOU!  It's a wrap ... to all colleagues and especially my beloved students the keys were turned in and giving space to the new ... hope you won't be bur

Friday, June 5th is one of the most auspicious days in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar (in Tibetan, "Saga Dawa Duchen"). This day celebrates Buddha Shakyamuni's birth, enlightenment and parinmirvana approximately 2,600 years ago. Here is a video of my niece dancing and singing with her teacher celebrating.  2020 유튜브로 만나는 연등회 공연 4. 소을 소리판-꽃바람 부는 4월 초파일

... an open letter  signed by board members of the Conseil québécois du thé âtre produced this translation courtesy of Dayane Ntibarikure (PACT) and Gariela Saltiel (Segal Centre), with additional support from Mishka Lavigne in a post titled This is not Theatre ... ... having forged the label "educator of the imagination" to describe my work with students in the domain of theatre/drama or rather the domain of the incarnation of the imagination ... i take a paragraph from the letter ...  replace "theatre" with "education" ...  exchange "audience" with "student" ...  perhaps scandalously exchange "performing arts" with "pedagogy" ... now have created some semblance of meaning to my days of unknowing ... "Education is the art of gathering. Without direct encounter with the student, education does not exist. Without this delicious and dangerous awareness of the fallibility of the humans there in front

Another moment from last year at the rRemai mModern. We stood in a moment of meditative silence watching a window curtain flapping the breeze Michael Snow's Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids)  ... threw red balls BODY FLUID BLOOD by Puppies Puppies ( Jade Kuriki Olivo ) conceptual, performance and installation artist ... reflected on light gazing at Marie Lannoo's See Nothing, See Everything #6 ... ::Note:: ... video by colleague Gabe Penna ... a warm hearted, passionate educator ...

picture & writing posted on Facebook  ... my class last year ... even the guide was a former student ... the work at the back Fringe … (depiction of a Native woman’s violently slashed back, stitched together with delicate red seed beads) ... part of the incredible Rebecca Belmore Facing The Monumental exhibition ... the temporary closure creates a huge longing ... visits to the rRemai always both soothed & challenged the soul … photo from the rRemai April newsletter ... ::Note::   ... rRemai mModern used a photo of my GFA class in their promotional material ... even the guide was a former student ... the work at the back ...  Fringe ... from Facing the Monumental ...

(Director Notes for the show not to be.) A still from the archived video from tech rehearsal My sojourn with the present embodiment of Autobiography of Grass Tomb began in 2003 during a first visit to Korea. Fascinated by the rich traditional arts i searched desperately for a Korean play in English translation and successfully downloaded one from a site now long defunct. Grass Tomb by Oh, Tae-sok & Dong Nang Repertory Theatre of Korea was described by the translator Ryu, Yung-kyung as “personified abstractions”. A short read of thirty-five minutes made it ideal for research in university classes. I played with the script for a few years in first year acting classes eventually developing something articulated as soul work .  My partner AeRan Jeong, an incredible performance artist and esteemed academic, introduced me to the Korean Arts - the mask dances, Temple stays, Pansori instruction, Piri lessons and a vast array of Korean theatre from puppets to drumming. We s

View this post on Instagram Nominated by one of my dearest former students @empyclaw 10 day, 10 photo 0 explanation challenge. 10 times you felt fierce as an artist. A post shared by Raymon Montalbetti (@ifsphere) on Jan 28, 2020 at 7:39pm PST