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Saturday, May 2, 2015
Friday, May 1, 2015
Martha Graham - Lamentation
Lamentation, choreographed and performed by Martha Graham. Filmed in 1943 at Bennington College by Russian-born sculptor Simon Moselsio. His wife, who took still photos of the same piece, explained ""We used two movie cameras for the motion picture, so we could take the picture from different angles.... I had the still camera around my neck and made the stills at the same time."
Performed to music by Zoltán Kodály, Lamentation premiered on January 8, 1930, at New York's Maxine Elliott's Theatre. The solo work was performed by Martha Graham in a concert given by the Dance Repertory Theatre. Graham joined dancer/choreographers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and [Helen] Tamiris to form the Dance Repertory Theatre. The goal was "to give annually a season of continuous dance programs which will be representative of the art of dance in American and will give native artists an outlet for their creative work." Dance Magazine (April 1930) noted that the work was "a statuesque composition, which relied for much of its eloquence upon an ingenious and simple costume arrangement." The November 20, 1932, Record(Philadelphia) reviewed a later performance and noted, "When Miss Graham in her Lamentation depicts the dumb agony of grief she does not droop like a flower or attitudinize like Patience on a monument, she is grief from the first stricken bewildered gropings of her head and torso to the last moment when she averts her covered head with a finality that is pitiful and terrible."
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Sardegna: Spiaggia de Le Dune (Teulada, Porto Pino)
Un'altra mia gemma. Le dune di Porto Pino.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Love Story Soundtrack - 01 - Love Story Theme - Francis Lai composer
Music by Francis Lai
Beautiful.
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Andy Williams' Love Story (Where Do I Begin?)
LOVE STORY (WHERE DO I BEGIN?)
Andy Williams
Music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman.
Where do I begin?
To tell the story of how great a love can be
The sweet love story that is older than the sea
The simple truth about the love she brings to me
Where do I start?
With her first hello
She gave a meaning to this empty world of mine
There'd never be another love, another time
She came into my life and made the living fine
She fills my heart
She fills my heart with very special things
With angels' songs, with wild imaginings
She fills my soul with so much love
That anywhere I go I'm never lonely
With her around, who could be lonely?
I reach for her hand
It's always there
How long does it last?
Can love be measured by the hours in a day?
I have no answers now, but this much I can say
I know I'll need her 'til the stars all burn away
And she'll be there
How long does it last?
Can love be measured by the hours in a day?
I have no answers now, but this much I can say
I know I'll need her 'til the stars all burn away
And she'll be there
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In volo sulle Dune di Piscinas, il deserto della Sardegna
La mia gemma selvaggia. Piscinas.
-Sempre nel mio cuore-
LOVE
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Sunday, April 26, 2015
Philip Glass - The Hours - 01 Poets Act - Original Soundtrack
These notes have been accompanying me for almost a year...
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Original Soundtrack of the film "The Hours" - 1080 HD
Composer: Philip Glass
Year: 2002
Track Listing:
01. The Poet Acts - 00:00
02. Morning Passages - 03:48
03. Something She Has to Do - 09:26
04. "For Your Own Benefit" - 12:44
05. Vanessa and the Changelings - 14:52
06. "I'm Going to Make a Cake" - 16:46
07. An Unwelcome Friend - 20:56
08. Dead Things - 25:12
09. The Kiss - 29:42
10. "Why Does Someone Have to Die" - 33:44
11. Tearing Herself Away - 37:45
12. Escape! - 42:54
13. Choosing Life - 46:50
14. The Hours - 50:57
Friday, April 24, 2015
My great anatomy teacher, Leslie Kaminoff: “Asanas Don’t Have Alignment”.
Leslie Kaminoff: “Asanas Don’t Have Alignment”
BY MEAGAN MCCRARY |
Leslie Kaminoff claims you should never say never about a yoga pose and that the key to safely teaching asana is actually shifting the focus to svadyaya.
Last time, we talked to anatomy expert and YJ LIVE! presenter Leslie Kaminoff (Can Wild Thing Ever Be Practiced Safely?), he asserted that asanas don’t exist separate from the individuals doing them. This time around, he makes another bold claim: “Asanas don’t have alignment, people have alignment.”
The Claim: Yoga Poses Don’t Have Alignment
Come again? This contradicts most of what most yoga teachers are taught in training—to look at the alignment of asanas intrinsically, breaking down each posture and then asking students (as a class) to build the pose from the foundation up. In other words, Warrior I has this alignment, Warrior II has that alignment, and so on and so forth through the entire syllabus of yoga poses. Kaminoff is attempting to change the conversation, though, by asking us to reimagine alignment as entirely based on the individual performing the pose. That is, “never say never” when teaching asana.
Never Say Never When Teaching Asana
According to Kaminoff, context is key. “Never” and “always” decontextualize any statement that follows. There are times when certain alignment cues apply for certain bodies in certain poses and other times when they don’t. There is no universally correct alignment—there is only correct alignment for an individual in a specific asana.
Kaminoff studied under T.K.V. Desikachar, son of Sri T. Krishnamacharya and author of The Heart of Yoga, who dedicated the majority of his life to teaching a highly individualized method of yoga, adapting the asanas, practice, and tools of yoga to the individual’s changing needs. “If I got nothing else from my studies with Desikachar, it’s the necessity to respect the individual in this process because the individual is the ultimate context of this yoga practice,” says Kaminoff, who doesn’t teach standardized asana to groups, but instead espouses a non-standardized, adaptable breath-centered approach to yoga.
Tailoring Group Classes to Meet Individual Students’ Needs
Since public group classes aren’t going anywhere any time soon, there has to be a middle ground between teaching the broad-stroke “safe” alignment cues and tailoring instruction to individual students’ needs. As an alignment-based teacher, I struggle with this in my classes. Having hypermobility in just about every joint of my body, myself, I learned the hard way that many of the alignment cues, aimed at the majority of the population who have flattened lumbar curves and tight shoulders, weren’t necessarily meant for me. To manage my super-flexible students, I often feel like I need to be giving two completely different sets of instructions throughout class. Sometimes it can be a lot to take on. In the end, as teachers, we do our best.
See also How to Teach Multi-Level Classes
Shift the Focus
“Yoga is not about doing the asanas—it’s about un-doing what’s in the way of the asanas,” Kaminoff likes to say. “In order for asana practice to truly be a yoga practice it has to be done in the context of understanding that we’re challenging our patterns while invoking svadhyaya, or self-reflection.” That is, rather than the end goal, it’s the process we’re after. All of the benefit and the greatest potential for change lies in the trying to both learn something about ourselves and to do something we couldn’t previously do.
Three Ways to Encourage Svadyaya in Your Students
- Create context for the physical practice, offering a theme, an intention or an attitudinal direction that that allows space for self-inquiry and contemplation.
- Probe your students to ask themselves questions, whether it relates to the physical experience of an asana (such as how can I create more freedom in this area of my body?) or to an internal experience that’s taking place (such as where does my mind go when I’m offered a moment of stillness? What track does it usually fall into?).
- When it comes to alignment of the poses, I like to remind my students to not take my word for it so-to-speak. I often ask them to try it my way, then try it their way, or whatever way a different teacher has asked them to do it—and then decide for themselves what makes sense to them and in their bodies.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
“The media decides when you’re no longer believably f**kable”: Amy Schumer tears into industry sexism
WEDNESDAY, APR 22, 2015 12:10 PM EDT
“The media decides when you’re no longer believably f**kable”: Amy Schumer tears into industry sexism
She enlists the help of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey and Patricia Arquette to drive the point home
The Season 3 premiere of Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer” was full ofmethodically precise sketches that tackled hot button cultural issues. Perhaps most memorable of the bunch: “Last F**kable Day,” the star-studded sketch featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey and Patricia Arquette that shames the media for its perpetuation of industry sexism. While on a jog, Schumer stumbles upon the gang having a picnic in the forest and quickly learns that they’ve convened to celebrate Louis-Dreyfus’ “last fuckable day.” That is, the day the media decides you are no longer “believably fuckable.” They take Schumer — “that girl from the television who talks about her pussy all the time” — under their wing and prepare her for the cruel world of middle-aged acting as a female: Disney stars replace you in the sequel to your Oscar-winning film and you only get signed on to movies with “uplifting yet vague” titles like “Whatever it Takes” or “She Means Well.” Then, you’re pushed off to sea … so you can go home and do laundry.
We will change this.
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GYROTONIC(R) International Headquarters Video.5 - www.gyrotonic.com
The following are quotes by Juliu Horvath regarding Gyrotonic Expansion System movement qualities:[1]
“The octopus, the monkey and the cat are my basic models because they can move in any direction at any given time with strength and control because they have no restrictions. The human body has restrictions, but I can model the body ─ within the framework of its restrictions ─ to move in a similar way, to be free,”
“I want music in my body and poetry in my body, and I want to be skillful without struggle; it has to come without struggle.”
“I discovered Kundalini energy through my pain and agony, and somehow that awakened me. Being awakened energetically means that you can read the movement when it is not a movement yet. You are like a little child who is totally unconscious and not prepared to make movement happen. Children move because something moves them from within.”
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Monday, April 20, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Naomi Oreskes on global warming
It's simple. It is basic physics and chemistry.
The earth has got to warm up, and guess what, that sooner or later has past, and here we are.
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Saturday, April 11, 2015
Insanity
I couldn't help but taking a picture of this insanity. The message the ad spreads it's just wrong, and it saddens me that so many people, women and men, young and less young, buy it. I say a big, fat NO.
Embrace your body, and work in harmony to be at the best you can. Be healthy, eat and drink well, move a ton, have fun, make love. LOVE.
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