| The Invisible Audience | 2 comments |
 23 Feb 2003 @ 11:50, by Raymond PowersMy friend Ken Symington,ethnobotanical preservationist,elder mentor, Nature Friends retreat center steward and one of the founders of the Invisible Theater Made Visible men's pereformance troop, for which I am privileged to be the music director of for the last four, years sent me this wonderful email. ---- I recently read this comment by Julie Taymor, producer/designer of recent theatrical events (Lion King, Frida, etc) that relates to our Invisible Theater project. I thought you might enjoy reading it. "I went to Bali to a remote village by a volcanic mountain on the lake. They were having a ceremony that only happens every 10 years for the young men. I was listening to this music, and all of a sudden out of the darkness, I could see glints of mirrors and 30 or 40 men in full warrior costume. They came out with these spears and they started to dance. With these voices coming out of them. They didn't care if somebody was paying for tickets, writing reviews. They didn't care if an audience was watching. They were performing for God. And that profoundly moved me then." The pic looks like Ming the Mechanic when his server goes down or his email "in" box exceeds 1000 per day. |