Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge

I start with the notion of the ideograph. An ideograph is like a brush painting, a Japanese brush painting.Three strokes, you get the whole bamboo forest. I go to the concept of "The Lion King" and I say, "What is the essence of it? What is the abstraction? If I were to reduce this entire story into one image, what would it be?"

work

"There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work…. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work."      

                                                     ~Brandon Stanton

(yep.)

all power to the polymath

Shirley Ellis

Women Playwrights International and University of Cape town, welcomes Food for the Gods

The next Women Playwrights International Conference  will be held in Cape Town South Africa, hosted by the University of Cape Town.  The theme this year is "Without Words"  and Food for the Gods was selected and invited as one of the plays to be presented.  

Inspired by the killings of Black men  at the hands of police and other institutions of authority, this work utilizes mixed-media and mask-puppetry to explore the process of dehumanization, positive and negative space, invisibility and well…the MAGICAL-less-ness of it all. A three-part expression of rage, indifference, and celestial knowings.  Food for the Gods is an experiential triptych of sort,  an audience immersive performance installation that takes place in three unique settings.  It juxtaposes harsh reality with piercing beauty.

"Yes, there are subjects that are beyond words. While studying this issue of dehumanization in America, without knowing it, I found myself “beyond words.”  There was only raw emotion.  Within Food for the Gods, I attempted to captured that emotion through images, movement, transformative space, and sound. The characters do speak, however, this is not a play of dialog. Rather, it is a sensory experience of visceral expression documented in words. WPIC international will be held June 29th to July 2nd 2015.

meditations

behold the mighty and precious  seed…

                                                for within it the ALL is contained…

of aloe plants and octopus arms…

of healing and sensitivity

that with prickles and that with tri-hearts..

of tumors and seeds:

i am deeply concerned for the watermelon--unable to  grow and produce the things 

that it should...

i am deeply concerned for the human being-- growing and producing that which it should not!

make me please like the mango, the avocado, the cherry and nectarine,

each refusing to give up the core of their being…

make me 

please to hold fast to the seed that is me…                 

Summer Reading

          

This week... Daughter of the Makahiya

inverse

         

 ...it's what made me come...
           ....maybe it will also be what makes me leave...