Comments on: Beyond the metaphors of mirrors http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:02:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: tonya http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-6544 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:05:45 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-6544 Aw, I'm so glad you found this post, Maia! I know, these pics and his write-up made me so upset that I had missed this! Never again! Aw, I’m so glad you found this post, Maia! I know, these pics and his write-up made me so upset that I had missed this! Never again!

]]> by: Maia http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-6542 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:05:19 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-6542 Hi David Wow! The pictures are incredible!! You have no idea how privileged you are!! :) I wish I was there! Sankai Juku is possibly one of the most amazing butoh groups. I have seen many pics - but none as beautiful as these. Seeing these pics reminded me of the initial passionate interest I had when I discovered the world of Butoh 7 years ago. Butoh keeps on popping up everywhere I look: perhaps it is a sign - I need to delve deeper & explore it physically in my work. :) You have just solved where I am going with my next work! Thanx :) Hi David

Wow! The pictures are incredible!! You have no idea how privileged you are!! :) I wish I was there!

Sankai Juku is possibly one of the most amazing butoh groups. I have seen many pics - but none as beautiful as these.

Seeing these pics reminded me of the initial passionate interest I had when I discovered the world of Butoh 7 years ago. Butoh keeps on popping up everywhere I look: perhaps it is a sign - I need to delve deeper & explore it physically in my work. :)

You have just solved where I am going with my next work! Thanx :)

]]> by: fontaine http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1063 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:38:24 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1063 david i just saw this performance in san francisco tuesday night. i have never been so moved by beauty. by the end, i was weeping. i felt as if i had finally articulated the struggle within and could visually see and physically feel the state of "peace" -- that pervading sensation left me in tears. i didn't want to move because i felt a resolution within myself that i knew would dissipate over time as I walked into the night. it was as you said – the casting of a spell over many people at once – i’ve never seen an audience so still, so quiet that you could hear a seat creaking if someone moved. this is real art. something indescribable and yet indelible on the soul – so personal both to artist and to observer that in any other context would be self-conscious – and yet the whole point of the dance seemed to be to force self-consciousness to the point of realization of consciousness beyond self – of the universal – of the eternal i would walk 100 miles to see this again. anyone who has access to this performance should go. david
i just saw this performance in san francisco tuesday night. i have never been so moved by beauty. by the end, i was weeping. i felt as if i had finally articulated the struggle within and could visually see and physically feel the state of “peace” — that pervading sensation left me in tears. i didn’t want to move because i felt a resolution within myself that i knew would dissipate over time as I walked into the night. it was as you said – the casting of a spell over many people at once – i’ve never seen an audience so still, so quiet that you could hear a seat creaking if someone moved. this is real art. something indescribable and yet indelible on the soul – so personal both to artist and to observer that in any other context would be self-conscious – and yet the whole point of the dance seemed to be to force self-consciousness to the point of realization of consciousness beyond self – of the universal – of the eternal
i would walk 100 miles to see this again. anyone who has access to this performance should go.

]]> by: Chimene http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1062 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:35:33 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1062 David, Wow! Those pics are amazing. The red looks like blood and is kinda spooky. I actually thought they were statues or sculptures at first. They appear almost ghostly, which I guess would be like being in a trance. Best, Chimene David,

Wow! Those pics are amazing. The red looks like blood and is kinda spooky. I actually thought they were statues or sculptures at first. They appear almost ghostly, which I guess would be like being in a trance.

Best,
Chimene

]]> by: susan http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1061 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:38:24 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1061 wow, david. this is amazing. wow, david.
this is amazing.

]]> by: tonya http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1060 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:46:23 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/beyond-the-metaphors-of-mirrors/#comment-1060 Now I wish I wouldn't have missed this. I love posts like this, reading about what inspires you as an artist. You are such a beautiful writer -- and dancer. It's not fair! Now I wish I wouldn’t have missed this. I love posts like this, reading about what inspires you as an artist. You are such a beautiful writer — and dancer. It’s not fair!

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